APEX at Night
The APEX Telescope under the starry sky, at an altitude of 5100 metres on the Chajnantor plateau, in the Chilean Andes. APEX, the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, is a 12-metre antenna that observes the Universe at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths. In the background on the right is the 5600-metre-high Cerro Chajnantor.
Credit:
J. Vieira/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)
About the Image
| Id: | apex_at_night_vieira-cc |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 3 July 2011, 16:56 |
| Size: | 4752 x 3168 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Atacama Pathfinder Experiment |
| Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope • APEX |
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