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Author	Gianluca Lombardi
Copyright holder	Gianluca Lombardi
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Source	European Southern Observatory
Credit/Provider	ESO/G. Lombardi
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Image title	The KMOS instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. KMOS is unique as it will be able to observe not just one, but 24 objects at the same time in infrared light and to map out how their properties vary from place to place. It will provide crucial data to help understand how galaxies grewand evolved in the early Universe — and provide it much faster than has been possible up to now. KMOS was built by a consortium of universities and institutes in the United Kingdom and Germany in collaboration with ESO. In this picture KMOS is the silver structure at the centre, surrounded by theblue ring structure that connects it to the VLT Unit Telescope 1, which appears on the left. On the right the large silver cylinder supports the extensive KMOS electronics and allows them to rotate as the telescope moves across the sky.
Short title	KMOS on the Very Large Telescope at the time of first light
Date and time of data generation	12:00, 12 December 2012
Contact information	http://www.eso.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany