Moonlit landscape at La Silla Observatory. Stars in the night sky over a moonlit landscape at La Silla Observatory, in the Atacama desert of northern

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Moonlit landscape at La Silla Observatory. Stars in the night sky over a moonlit landscape at La Silla Observatory, in the Atacama desert of northern Chile. At left is the building housing the ESO telescope, operated by the European Southern Observatory. The site is at an elevation of 2400 metres. Photographed in 2016.

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