La Silla's rocky landscape
Harsh, rock-strewn landscape surrounds ESO's La Silla Observatory, located on the outskirts of the Chilean Atacama desert. Below a speckled night sky, the brilliantly white domes of ESO's 3.6-metre telescope are easily recognisable from this unique angle.
Credit:J. Morin/ESO
About the Image
Id: | igp7034_v5-cc |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 27 October 2015, 18:05 |
Size: | 3046 x 2027 px |
About the Object
Name: | ESO 3.6-metre telescope, La Silla |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | La Silla |