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Cerro Armazones at Sunset

by

S.Brunier/Novapix

Reference

o-elt01-00003

Date

2010-04-28

360-degree panorama of Cerro Armazones in the Chilean desert, near ESO's Paranal Observatory, site of the Very Large Telescope (VLT). Cerro Armazones was chosen as the site for the planned European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which, with its 42-metre diameter mirror, will be the world’s biggest eye on the sky.