Friday, October 8, 2010

Best of a New Trove of Mind-Blowing Space Photos | Wired Science | Wired.com

Best of a New Trove of Mind-Blowing Space Photos | Wired Science | Wired.com


The European Southern Observatory is a veritable factory of mind-blowing space photos, and now they’ve compiled their top 100 images ever all in one place.

Some of these have already appeared on Wired Science (and spent weeks as this reporter’s desktop background), but many are new to us. ESO comprises a constellation of telescopes high in the mountains of Chile, including the Very Large Telescope (actually four separate telescopes working together), VISTA, APEX, the La Silla Paranal Observatory, and ALMA, so there were a lot of images to choose from. Some of the most striking are of the telescopes themselves — the scenery in the Chilean desert is as stunning as its skies are clear.

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