Starry nights, extraordinary days
Sky phenomena are not reserved for the night alone. Here a relatively rare instance of a circumhorizontal arc, caused by particular refraction of light, casts vivid colours in the clouds over the site of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), the world's most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory.
Credit:ESO/T. Pfrommer
About the Image
Id: | img_1946-cc |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 15 September 2016, 14:12 |
Size: | 1600 x 1200 px |
About the Object
Name: | Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Sky Phenomenon : Light Phenomenon Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
Category: | Paranal |