A Dark Sky Full of Light
This high-resolution view of ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile was taken on 4 April 2016 by ESO Photo Ambassador Petr Horálek. The dome of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) takes centre stage in this panorama, dominating the foreground as it sits beneath the arc of the Milky Way. Numerous nebulae can be seen dotted along the arc of our galaxy and around the constellation of Orion (to the lower right). The remarkable glow of one of the Milky Way’s satellites, the Large Magellanic Cloud, can be seen above the VLT Unit Telescope. While the sky is typically dark in the Atacama Desert, a faint and colourful airglow often makes it brighter, especially over the horizon.
Credit:P. Horálek/ESO
About the Image
Id: | horalek-vst-milky-way |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 21 January 2021, 10:10 |
Size: | 12021 x 11920 px |
About the Object
Name: | Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Sky Phenomenon : Night Sky : Milky Way Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | Paranal |