Milky Way with SEST radio telescope at La Silla Observatory. Band of the Milky Way galaxy (right) and a meteor trail (centre) in the night sky behind

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Milky Way with SEST radio telescope at La Silla Observatory. Band of the Milky Way galaxy (right) and a meteor trail (centre) in the night sky behind the 15-metre Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST), a radio telescope at La Silla Observatory in the Atacama desert of northern Chile. The La Silla site is at an elevation of 2400 metres. Photographed in 2016.

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