Hunter of the night
This unusual composition shows the Milky Way like a great dagger through the sky, over the winding road leading through the La Silla Observatory. The ESO 3.6-metre telescope is visible reflected in a roadside mirror. The telescope hosts HARPS, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, the world's foremost exoplanet hunting instrument.
Links to alternative projections of this image:
- Fisheye version of this image
- Equirectangular projected version of this image
- Extended to 360 x 180 degrees (with black) version of this image
ESO/B. Tafreshi
About the Image
| Id: | nik8915p3-cc |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 4 October 2016, 14:35 |
| Size: | 6586 x 8173 px |
About the Object
| Name: | ESO 3.6-metre telescope, HARPS, La Silla |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
| Category: | La Silla |
