Dual View of Distant Telescopes in Chile

The top part of this image captures the view of telescopes operated by NSF’s NOIRLab on Cerro Pachón and Cerro Tololo mountaintops in the Andrean mountains of Chile from the view of La Silla Observatory operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). You can view the full image in the Image of the Week here. The bottom part of this image captures the opposite view of the La Silla Observatory of ESO from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. You can view an unannotated version of this image here.

Credit:

NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Srba (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences), P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

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Id:iotw2318b
Type:Collage
Release date:May 3, 2023, noon
Size:5413 x 4000 px

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