ESO’s Newest Exoplanet-Seeking ‘Scope Brings Home Its First Images
The Tarantula Nebula, Captured by ESO’s New Trappist Telescope TRAPPIST/E. Jehin/ESO
The European Southern Observatory’s newest telescope has collected its first images of the cosmos, capturing some stunning images of the Tarantula Nebula and making a good case for the virtues of telecommuting. Trappist, as the telescope is called, resides at the La Silla observatory on the edge of the Atacama Desert in Chile, but it is operated from a control room in Belgium, nearly 7,500 miles away.
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