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,
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 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 MASCARA exoplanet observatory. View inside the MASCARA (Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA) station at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) La Silla Observatory, Chile. MASCARA is an exoplanet experiment by Leiden University in the Netherlands, that began operation in July 2017. It's purpose is to seek out transiting exoplanets as they pass in front of their parent stars in order to create a catalogue of targets for future observations. MASCARA consists of two stations, one in each hemisphere, both of which use cameras (seen here) attached to optical telescopes to make short exposure photographs of most of the visible sky.
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