High-tech Medusa
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| Gordian knot of the 21st century |
What you see in the above picture, can be described by the term "Gordian knot of the 21st century", or the term "high-tech Medusa" or both terms at once. However, this picture was taken in the working area of the telescope Very Large Telescope (VLT) located at the European southern Observatory (European Southern Observatory, ESO), located in Cerro-Penarol (Cerro Paranal, Chile. And this picture shows an incredibly complex cooling system is one of the main instruments of the telescope.Web of pipes and hoses is a tool cooling system MUSE, one of the latest additions, recently obtained by the VLT telescope. This instrument consists of 24 independent detectors, each individual needs a continuous flow of coolant.
