SEST dish above a mountainous landscape. The SEST (Swedish-ESO sub-millimetre telescope) has a 15 metre diameter dish. It is used for observations at wavelengths between 42 and 0.8 millimetres,a type of radio radiation. La Silla is in the Chilean Atacama Desert,which is very dry and at high altitude (2400 metres). These conditions are ideal for astronomical observations | |
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