A Study in Scarlet
This snapshot captures the towering Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope and one of the four SMARTS Consortium telescopes, both set against the spectacular backdrop of the early evening sky. The dome of the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope — which is actually gleaming white — has been illuminated in scarlet light, giving the observatory an unusually vivid appearance.
This image was captured at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab. The observatory’s high-altitude desert location — it lies 2200 meters (7200 feet) above sea level at the edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert — provides astronomers with the pristine conditions needed to observe the Universe.
Credit:DES/DOE/FNAL/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Hahn
About the Image
Id: | iotw2119a |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | May 12, 2021, noon |
Size: | 6048 x 4032 px |
About the Object
Category: | CTIO |
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