Sun pillar and VLT telescopes. Evening view of a sun pillar, a vertical shaft of light extending upward from the Sun, in this case just after sunset. At right are three of the auxiliary telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile's Atacama Desert. Operated by the ESO (European Southern Observatory), the VLT interferometer, one of the most powerful telescopes in the world, is located on Cerro Paranal at an altitude of 2600 metres. Photographed on 16 October 2015. | |
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