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Endless expanse 🤩

The full #Moon shines bright in the sky. Below it, the giant dome of our Extremely Large Telescope glows with the golden #sunset light of the Atacama Desert in #Chile.

The ELT dome might look small in the image, but the full 30-min walk via the set of stairs from the entrance of the dome to its top indicates its gigantic size: 80 m high and 93 m wide.

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📷 L. Sbordone/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

This photograph captures the mesmerising colours of an evening sky. The sky's gradient fades from blue at the top to white, then orange and pink at the bottom. A mountain range is visible at the bottom of the image, with all but one of the mountains already in darkness. The last illuminated one is on the right, with a metallic structure on top. In the middle of the mountain range, a triangular shadow can be seen. A silver full moon high in the sky on the left underlines the timelessness of the image.

Endless expanse

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#Space #science #astronomy #Moon #astrophysics #Astrodon #Chile #sunset
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