The Milky Way Over Paranal
影像版權與提供: Stephane Guisard (Los Cielos de Chile)
Explanation:
It's not the sky that's falling. More accurately, the Earth is rising. The Earth's rotation gives a continually changing view to all Earth observers, including those measuring the universe at the Paranal Observatory. The observatory's four, massive 8.2 meter telescope units are situated on top of the 2,600 meter high mountain, Cerro Paranal, in the dry Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The individual unit telescopes can be used separately or in combination. Their names, Antu, Kueyen, Melipal, and Yepun, are taken from the Mapuche language. Fittingly they translate to Sun, Moon, Evening Star, and Southern Cross. Together they are fittingly known as the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.
說明:
那並不是天塌下來了，而是地球升起來了。 地球自轉使人們眼中的星空不斷地變化，包括正在帕拉那天文台裡正在探索宇宙的天文學家們。這座擁有四部口徑8.2公尺大望遠鏡的天文台，座落在智利北部乾燥的亞他加馬沙漠 (Atacama Desert) 2600公尺高的帕拉那山 (Cerro Paranal) 山頂上。這四座望遠鏡可以單獨或合併使用。它們的名字分別為太陽 (Antu)、月亮 (Kueyen)、南十字 (Melipal)、及金星 (Yepun)，這些名稱是由智利土著馬普切人 (Mapuche) 的語言命名的。這四架望遠鏡合起來便是著名的歐洲南天天文台的極大望遠鏡 (Very Large Telescope)。
資料來源: Scientific American
Department of Physics, NCKU
