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Credit & Copyright: European Southern Observatory -
Courtesy: Jens Scheidtmann
Explanation:
The southern winter
Milky Way sprawls
across this night skyscape.
Looking due south, the
webcam view
was recorded near local midnight
on March 11 in dry, dark skies over the central Chilean Atacama desert.
Seen below the graceful arc of diffuse starlight
are satellite galaxies of the mighty Milky Way, also known as
the Large and Small
Magellanic clouds.
In the foreground is the site of the European Southern
Observatory's 40-metre-class
Extremely Large Telescope
(ELT).
Under construction at the 3000 metre summit of
Cerro Armazones, the ELT is
on track to become planet Earth's biggest Eye on the Sky.
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