“damn, what a sky…”
[Image credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky] Clear skies are everything in visible-light astronomy, and they don’t come much clearer that the skies above the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope [VLT] array on top of Cerro Paranal in Chile’s Atacama Desert. As this amazing time-lapse video of the VLT in operation, by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado, shows. There’s little I can say to prepare you for these wondrous images. Simply stunning. Via the Professor. And via Popsci’s Clay Dillow, who warns “it …