Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy Captured between a Unit Telescope | ESO

Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy Captured between a Unit Telescope | ESO

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) captured between the enclosure of one of the four Unit Telescopes that forms part of the Very Large Telescope array (VLT) at Paranal Observatory in Chile—the flagship facility for European ground-based astronomy.

Learn more about the VLT:

https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/vlt/

Credit: ESO/Babak Tafreshi 

Release Date: May 9, 2014

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