Paranal from the mountainside
ESO Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi at ESO's Paranal site. Here is home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the world’s most advanced ground-based facility for astronomy. Shown here is the 4.1-metre Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), a survey telescope working at infrared wavelengths, and is by far the largest telescope in the world dedicated to surveying the sky at near-infrared wavelengths.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | uhd_img_0803 |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 22 January 2014, 15:52 |
Size: | 4631 x 3346 px |
About the Object
Name: | Cerro Paranal, Paranal, Photo Ambassador, Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : People Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
Category: | Paranal People and Events |
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