《通往星星的路
(原标题: A Road to the Stars)
2022-03-15
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如图所示——一条通往星星的风景优美的道路。这条路通往智利的拉西拉天文台，前方就是ESO的3.6米望远镜。左边是计划中的BlackGEM望远镜的一些具有未来感的支撑结构，这是一组光学望远镜，将帮助定位LIGO和其他探测器探测到的引力波的光学对应物。但还有更多。红色的气辉照亮了右侧的夜空，而我们银河系的中央带斜穿过图像中心。木星可以在图像中心附近的波段上方看到，而土星可以在3.6米的望远镜圆顶上方看到。我们银河系的两个最大的卫星星系，LMC和SMC，在最右边。特色图像全景是由2019年6月30日拍摄的多个15秒曝光组成的。两天后，拉西拉岛经历了罕见的日全食。
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Pictured -- a very scenic road to the stars. The road approaches La Silla Observatory in Chile, with the ESO's 3.6-meter telescope just up ahead. To the left are some futuristic-looking support structures for the planned BlackGEM telescopes, an array of optical telescopes that will help locate optical counterparts to gravitational waves detections by LIGO and other detectors. But there is much more. Red airglow illuminates the night sky on the right, while the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy slants across the image center. Jupiter can be seen just above the band near the image center, while Saturn is visible just above the 3.6-meter telescope dome. The two largest satellite galaxies of our Milky Way Galaxy, the LMC and SMC, are seen on the far right. The featured image panorama was built up from multiple 15-second exposures that were captured on 2019 June 30. Two days later, La Silla experienced a rare total eclipse of the Sun.