Paranal-Gegenschein
At Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, the sky is so dark that the famous and extremely difficult to observe Gegenschein (or "counter shine") can be seen here . This is a faint brightening of the night sky in the region of the ecliptic directly opposite the Sun, caused by reflection of sunlight by interplanetary dust in the Solar system.
Credit:
ESO/Stéphane Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard)
About the Image
| Id: | paranal_gegenschein |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 3 December 2009, 23:18 |
| Size: | 5000 x 5000 px |
About the Object
| Name: | European Southern Observatory, Paranal |
| Type: | • Solar System : Sky Phenomenon : Night Sky : Zodiacal Light : Gegenschein • X - Paranal |
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