June - Sunset at Paranal

Staff members at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert enjoy the sunset before night observations start. The group is accompanied by one of the 1.8-metre-diameter Auxiliary Tele- scopes which, along with three other Auxiliary Tele-scopes and four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes, make up ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the world’s most advanced visible/infrared-light astronomical observatory.