APEX at night
The APEX Telescope under the starry sky, at an altitude of 5100 metres on the Chajnantor plateau, in the Chilean Andes. APEX, the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, is a 12-metre antenna that observes the Universe at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths. In the background on the right is the 5600-metre-high Cerro Chajnantor.
Credit:J. Vieira/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)
About the Image
Id: | apex-at-night-vieira |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 3 July 2011, 16:56 |
Size: | 4752 x 3168 px |
About the Object
Name: | Atacama Pathfinder Experiment |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | APEX |
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