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22The European Southern Observatory (ESO) featured this scene of the Paranal Observatory in Chile, taken by Yuri Beletsky . “Resembling a river of light flowing through the dry otherworldly landscape, the road to the observatory is a lifeline for the facility. It can only be accessed by this road.”What do we see on the distant mountain called Cerro Paranal? It's the four telescopes that make up the VLT Survey Telescope – each unit has a mirror that spans over eight meters. The photo was taken from an adjacent peak in the Atacama Desert where ESO's VISTA telescope is located. Just look at that sky! River of light in the high desert
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23In which direction does the Sun rise? We know that, don't we? In the east. But not due east. Zaid M. Al-Abbadi shows the sunrise direction for each month of 2019, as seen from near the city of Amman, Jordan. He took the images with the camera always facing due east, north toward the left and south toward the right. [APOD]The Sun rises precisely due east at the equinoxes in March and September. But you can see that at the winter solstice the Sun is rising in the southeast and at the summer solstice, in the northeast. Sunrises around the Year
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24Here's a splendid selection of heavenly images. They're composites, each including data from the Chandra X-ray telescope plus data from other telescopes.From left to right top row: M82, an edge-on galaxy undergoing bursts of star formation. Abell 2744, a cluster of galaxies. Supernova 1987A occurred in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the brightest supernova for several centuries.
From left to right bottom row: Eta Carinae, a volatile system of two massive stars in close orbits in the Milky Way. Cartwheel galaxy, object that had a smaller galaxy pass through the middle of it triggering a lot of star formation. Helix Nebula, planetary nebula created by a dying sunlike star. Heavenly images
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Christmas DayOn the righthand side you'll easily spot the Cone Nebula, which is shaped like a stylized Christmas tree. The stars around it are called the Christmas Tree Cluster. One bright star even looks to me as though it's the star on top of the tree. Christmas Tree Cluster
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Amazing! I wonder what's really out there.
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