One of the four 8-meter Very Large Telescopes (VLT) located in the European Southern Observatory (ESO) site on Cerro Paranal is photographed under starry sky of Atacama Desert in Chile. The strong laser of the Adaptive Optics system is beamed to the sky from the telescope to monitor the atmospheric distortion. Our galactic neighbors, the Magellanic Clouds, and two bright stars of the southern sky, Canopus (left) and Achernar (top-right) highlight the image. Both red and green airglow are also captured near the horizon (airglow is an atmospheric phenomenon, faint natural night-time radiation of upper atmosphere).

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