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Close ✕Paranal Observatory and the GRAVITY interferometer
The European Southern Observatory site on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert, whose four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes can be combined interferometrically.
-24.6, -70.4 · approximate · observatory operating since 1998; GRAVITY on sky from 2016
On the world
- A place in: Approaching a Black Hole · 4 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates