Juan Carlos Muñoz on Nostr: Here's my #ChristmasTree for y'all! At the base, one of the Auxiliary Telescopes at ...

Here's my #ChristmasTree for y'all! At the base, one of the Auxiliary Telescopes at ESO's Paranal Observatory. Above it, the Magellanic Clouds, two small galaxies orbiting our own. The tree-topper is 47 Tucanae, a globular cluster containing millions of #stars.

The light from this and other telescopes can be combined to get the same level of detail as that of a huge "virtual" telescope using interferometry: https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/interferometry/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #space #Christmas