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VLT

abbreviation for
1. (Astronomy) Very Large Telescope: the name of an array of four large optical telescopes located in the Paranal Observatory in the Chilean part of the Atacama Desert
2. (Gambling, except Cards) US and Canadian video lottery terminal: one of a network of gambling machines connected to a centralized computer system which decides the outcome of each game using a random-number generator
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De Pater and Molter led the ALMA observations, while Michael Roman and Leigh Fletcher from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom led the VLT observations.
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