Shape model of the large main-belt asteroid (16) Psyche generated using high resolution images from the SPHERE instrument on the VLT (more details on this imaging survey are published in [this article](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021A%26A...654A..56V/abstract)).
![Images of Psyche with the VLT](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Psyche_asteroid_eso.jpg)
Psyche is a large (~222 km) metallic asteroid that will be visited by a NASA probe in 2026.