View From the Top
This photograph was taken on top of Cerro Paranal, the mountain in northern Chile that both hosts and lends its name to ESO’s world-leading Paranal Observatory. The great mottled arch of the central Milky Way curves across the panorama, filling the night sky with bursts of colour. Paranal is home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) — three of the VLT’s four large 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes (UTs) can be seen here towards the right of the frame, their housings open to capture the bright spectacle of the cosmos.
Credit:P. Horálek/ESO
About the Image
Id: | paranalmw |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 4 February 2021, 06:00 |
Size: | 19284 x 9109 px |
Field of View: | 240° x 100° |
About the Object
Name: | Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
Category: | Paranal |