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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

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