List of Astronomy Acronyms - V

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• VBO – (organization) Vainu Bappu Observatory, located in India
• VBT – (telescope) Vainu Bappu Telescope, located at Vainu Bappu Observatory
• VCC – (catalog) Virgo Cluster Catalog, a catalog of galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
• VdS – (organization) Vereinigung der Sternfreunde, the German amateur astronomers society
• VEEGA – (astrophysics terminology) Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist, the path taken by the Galileo spacecraft to reach Jupiter
• VeLLO – (celestial object) Very Low Luminosity Object
• VERITAS – (telescope) Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System, gamma-ray telescope in Arizona sensitive to GeV/TeV gamma rays
• VERA – (telescope) VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry, a Japanese radio telescope designed for studying objects in the Milky Way
• VHE – (astrophysics terminology) Very High Energy, gamma rays with high energies
• VIMOS – (instrumentation) VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph, instrument on the VLT
• VISTA – (telescope) Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
• VLA – (telescope) Very Large Array, a radio telescope in New Mexico operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• VLBA – (telescope) Very Long Baseline Array, a radio telescope operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory with antennas spread across the United States
• VLBI – (instrumentation) Very Long Baseline Interferometry, combining signals from multiple telescopes/radio antennas that are separated by large distances
• VLM – (astrophysics terminology) Very Low Mass, objects (usually stars) that have relatively low masses
• VLT – (telescope) Very Large Telescope, four 8.2 meter telescopes in Chile that operate either independently as individual telescopes or together as an interferometer
• VMO – (software) The Virtual Meteor Observatory is an activity of the International Meteor Organisation together with the Research and Scientific Support Department of the European Space Agency to store meteor data from observers all over the world.
• VO – (software) Virtual Observatory
• VOIR – (spacecraft) Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar, a spacecraft for mapping Venus that was canceled and then superseded by the Magellan spacecraft
• VRM – (spacecraft) Venus Radar Mapper, an older name for the Magellan spacecraft
• VSOLJ – (organization) Variable Star Observers League in Japan
• VSOP – (organization) VLBI Space Observatory Program, a project to use both satellites and ground-based radio telescopes as an interferometer
• VST – (telescope) VLT Survey Telescope
• VVDS – (observing program) VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey