The VISTA telecope - Chile
author: B.A.Tafreshi/Novapix
reference: o-vlt03-00108
Image Size 300 DPI: 70 * 39 cm
The Milky Way in a moonlit night of Atacama Desert, Chile, one of the driest places on Earth with Mars looking landscape, and home to Cerro Paranal Observatory. On the left is the infrared Vista (4.1 meter wide-field telescope for Infrared survey) and the farther peak shows the Very Large Telescope.