APEX control building on Chajnantor
View ofˆà the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment control building on the Chajnantor plain of the Chilean Andes, 5000 m above sea level. APEX is a collaboration between the Max Planck Institut f†®r Radioastronomie, Onsala Space Observatory (OSO) and ESO. The telescope was manufactured by VERTEX Antennentechnik in Duisburg, Germany. Astronomers observing with APEX can see cold dust and gas in both the Milky Way and in distant galaxies.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | dsc_0079 |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 31 March 2010, 17:05 |
Size: | 3008 x 2000 px |
About the Object
Name: | Chajnantor |
Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Facility |
Category: | • APEX |
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