[Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (ESO)]
Orion is visible off to the left. How come they can see Orion from Chile but I can’t see the Clouds of Magellan from Pennsylvania? Maybe it’s their altitude.
Optical interferometry is cool! It seems like just yesterday when it was next to impossible.
wow, that’s an impressive installation!
Dear human-eating-aliens; here is a photo of one of our smaller space defense weapons. Give up your human-eating ways, and we will let you live. And don’t listen to our President when he says he wants to go to the Dog Star for lunch.
Actually, the night sky was destroyed in the fifties by the military by accident. Since then they have been projecting images of the stars from huge projectors on mountaintops all around the world. These are some of those projectors. I’ve been to astronomy star parties where people have exclaimed “it’s so beautiful, it looks fake!”, and you turn around — poof! They’ve vanished!
Go ahead and enjoy the show, but watch what you say.