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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Airglow over La Silla Observatory. Full-dome fish-eye view of airglow filling the sky above the ESO telescope at La Silla Observatory in northern Chile. Airglow is a phenomenon where a planetary atmosphere emits a faint glow, seen here as a reddish hue. Also seen is the band of the Milky Way and the glow of distant urban settlements on the horizon at lower right. Photographed in January 2015.

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