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Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
Explanation: Above the clouds, atop an island off the coast of Africa, a group of cutting-edge telescopes inspects the universe. Pictured above are telescopes at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma , one of the Canary Islands , Spain . The site is one of the premier observing locations on Earth. The telescopes pictured are, from left to right, the Carlsberg Meridian Telescope , the 4.2-meter William Herschel Telescope , the Dutch Open Telescope , the Swedish Solar Tower , the 2.5-meter Isaac Newton Telescope , and the 1.0-meter Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope . Pioneering observations made recently by these telescopes include stars and galaxies forming early in our universe, comets breaking up , and evidence for planets around Sun-like stars.
| Date | August 19, 2002 |
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| Credit | Credit: Nik Szymanek ( ING ), IAC , ENO |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
| A service of: |
ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |