Twenty strong years with plenty still to do

The Very Large Telescope's Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) recently marked 20 years of operations, but the job is not done for this workhorse instrument, write Instrument Scientist Luca Sbordone and Fellow Camila Navarrete.

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The UVES instrument on the Very Large Telescope has been in operation for 20 years, but there is still more work to be done.