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Credit & Copyright: StÈphane Guisard
(Los Cielos de Chile)
Explanation:
It's not the sky that's falling. More accurately,
the Earth is rising.
The Earth's rotation gives a continually changing view to all Earth observers,
including those measuring the universe at the
Paranal Observatory.
The observatory's four, massive 8.2 meter telescope units
are situated on top of the 2,600 meter high mountain,
Cerro Paranal,
in the dry Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
The individual unit
telescopes can be used separately or in combination.
Their names, Antu, Kueyen, Melipal, and
Yepun, are taken from
the Mapuche language.
Fittingly they translate to Sun, Moon, Evening Star, and
Southern Cross.
Together they are fittingly known as the
European Southern Observatory's
Very Large Telescope.
A higher time resolution version of the above movie is available here.
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NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: VLT - Milky Way
Publications with words: VLT - Milky Way
See also:
- APOD: 2023 December 12 Á Aurora and Milky Way over Norway
- Milky Way Rising
- APOD: 2023 July 18 Á Milky Way above La Palma Observatory
- APOD: 2023 July 16 Á Meteor and Milky Way over the Alps
- APOD: 2023 July 2 Á Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica
- APOD: 2023 June 20 Á The Nandu in the Milky Way
- APOD: 2023 May 29 Á Milky Way over a Turquoise Wonderland