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Picture taken on the platform of the Very Large Telescope (VLT), with its four optical telescopes and four movable auxiliary telescopes, at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory, on Paranal Hill in Chile's Antofagasta Region, in the Atacama Desert some 1150 km north of Santiago, on June 20, 2022. - The ESO, a collaboration involving 16 European countries, operates a number of high-powered telescopes in Chile in three observing sites: Paranal, La Silla and Chajnantor. It is currently building the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) on Cerro Armazones as part of the Paranal Observatory, which already hosts the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), and two survey telescopes. (Photo by Martin BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)