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Picture perfect: when the Milky Way aligns

The European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory is situated in a perfect part of the world for observing the night sky. In the Chilean Atacama Desert the sky is generally cloudless, and so the stars sparkle in clear heavens for most of the year. This gave

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