SPECULOOS at Paranal

The SPECULOOS Southern Observatory (SSO) is a group of four telescopes based at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Northern Chile. SSO is the core facility of an exoplanet-hunting project called Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOL Stars (SPECULOOS), which uses the transit method to search for planets outside our Solar System. 

Credit:

ESO/A. Ghizzi Panizza (www.albertoghizzipanizza.com)

About the Image

Id:pao-dsc-3558
Type:Photographic
Release date:18 March 2021, 11:24
Size:8256 x 5504 px

About the Object

Name:SPECULOOS
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory
Category:Paranal

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