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Paranal Observatory - Artist view

by

P.Carril/Novapix

Reference

o-vlt99-00050

Date

2007-03-02

Located at the Paranal Observatory on Cerro Paranal, a 2,635 m high mountain in the Atacama desert in northern Chile, the VLTs are equipped with a large set of instruments permitting observations to be performed from the near-UV to the mid-IR.