Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

“During its first light, and for the first time in the history of long baseline interferometry in optical astronomy, GRAVITY could make exposures of several minutes, more than a hundred times longer than previously possible. GRAVITY will open optical interferometry to observations of much fainter objects, and push the sensitivity and accuracy of high angular resolution astronomy to new limits, far beyond what is currently possible.”

Source: From comments made by  Frank Eisenhauer, (MPE, Garching, Germany), as the newly installed instrument GRAVITY at ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile made its first observations. GRAVITY successfully combined starlight using four Auxiliary Telescopes as a large team of European astronomers and engineers, led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, who designed and built GRAVITY, noted that they are thrilled with the performance.

FMI: www.eso.org