September - La Silla Observatory

Located on the outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert, 600 kilometres north of Santiago and at an altitude of 2400 metres, this seemingly tiny village in the middle of a desert is in fact ESO’s first observatory, La Silla Observatory.

The many astronomical facilities hosted at La Silla include ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT), as well as several national telescopes, such as ExTrA and the Danish 1.54-metre telesco

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Year:2023
Month:9

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