

In 1966, following the 1963 assassination of President John F. Naval Observatory, given that the site of the house was once the grounds of the observatory (hence the address One Observatory Circle). Originally, this house was the residence of the superintendent of the U.S. So, what renovations were made to the property in the past two months? According to a tweet from Symone Sanders, Vice President Harris’s chief spokeswoman, "The repairs included maintenance on the HVAC system, replacing the liners in the chimneys and refurbishing of some of the hardwood floors.” Additionally, Sanders explained, “The move was initially delayed to allow for repairs to the home that are more easily conducted with the home unoccupied.” In the meantime, they have been living just across the street from the White House, in the President’s Guest House, also known as Blair House (more on that here).
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The VLT hotel, the Residencia, is an award-winning building, and served as a backdrop for part of the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.Fortunately, now that the renovation work is complete, the Vice President’s Residence is move-in ready-and Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will finally move in next week, according to CNN. More detailed background and technical information is provided in the VLT Whitebook.For Scientists: for more detailed information, please see our technical pages.
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The VLT has stimulated a new age of discoveries, with several notable scientific firsts, including the first image of an extrasolar planet ( eso0428), tracking individual stars moving around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way ( eso0846), and observing the afterglow of the furthest known Gamma-Ray Burst. VLT contributes greatly to making ESO the most productive ground-based observatory in the world. It is the most productive individual ground-based facility, and results from the VLT have led to the publication of an average of more than one peer-reviewed scientific paper per day.

The VLT has made an undisputed impact on observational astronomy. More information is available on this link Science with the Very Large Telescope But four smaller, dedicated 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) are available to allow the VLTI to operate every night. Today, all four Unit Telescopes and all four Auxiliary Telescopes are operational.Īlthough the four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes can be combined in the VLTI, they are mostly used for individual observations and are only available for interferometric observations for a limited number of nights every year. The first of the Unit Telescopes, 'Antu', went into routine scientific operations on 1 April 1999. This design minimises any adverse effects on the observing conditions, for instance from air turbulence in the telescope tube, which might otherwise occur due to variations in the temperature and wind flow. The 8.2m diameter telescopes are housed in compact, thermally controlled buildings, which rotate synchronously with the telescopes. It includes large-field imagers, adaptive optics corrected cameras and spectrographs, as well as high-resolution and multi-object spectrographs and covers a broad spectral region, from deep ultraviolet (300 nm) to mid-infrared (24 µm) wavelengths. The VLT instrumentation programme is the most ambitious programme ever conceived for a single observatory.

NB: only live at night.Ĭlick on the image to take a Virtual Tour in and nearby the VLT.
