Looks like a psicodelic painting, but it is the winner picture of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year, a competition promoted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich. The shot was taken by the Australian amateur astronomer Mark Gee. It shows the Milk Way above the Cape Palliser on the North Island of New Zealand. The brightest light in…
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Astronomy in the extreme
A personal account of a journalist who had the opportunity – and the guts – to visit the facilities of the Alma observatory, located at 5,000 meters altitude, in Chile. Imagine being in the second-highest human construction in the world, at five thousand meters of altitude. If you do not know what that involves, I…
Sofia Moutinho 