ObservaThory

Sometimes, I just wanna post a cool picture. Like now. Whoa. That photo was taken in June 2013, when a lightning storm raged over Cerro Paranal in Chile. See those four bumps on the top of that hill? Those are the enclosures of the four sub-units of the Very Large Telescope, each an 8-meter behemoth. A person standing there would be too small to see in this photo. But what I really love about this--besides the obvious drama--is over on the left. That patch of clear sky reveals a star barely visi...