APEX Image Calendar, December 2010 — Chajnantor at Sunrise
A very cold sunrise at the APEX Telescope after a snowstorm on the Chajnantor plateau in Chile's Atacama region. APEX looks at the cold, dusty, and distant Universe, often difficult to observe with other types of telescopes.
Credit:
F. MacAuliffe/ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)
About the Image
| Id: | p9040028_cc |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 10 March 2010, 10:24 |
| Size: | 1600 x 1200 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Atacama Pathfinder Experiment |
| Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope • APEX |
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