Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2024 March 16
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                            ELT and the Milky Way
   Image Credit & [3]License: [4]European Southern Observatory - Courtesy:
                              Jens Scheidtmann

   Explanation: The southern winter [5]Milky Way sprawls across this night
   skyscape. Looking due south, the [6]webcam view was recorded near local
   midnight on March 11 in dry, dark skies over the central Chilean
   Atacama desert. Seen below the graceful arc of diffuse starlight are
   satellite galaxies of the mighty Milky Way, also known as the Large and
   Small [7]Magellanic clouds. In the foreground is the site of the
   European Southern Observatory's 40-metre-class [8]Extremely Large
   Telescope (ELT). Under construction at the 3000 metre summit of
   [9]Cerro Armazones, the ELT is on track to become planet Earth's
   biggest Eye on the Sky.

                  Tomorrow's picture: when galaxies collide
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References

   1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2403/ELT_2024-03-13_2048.jpg
   3. https://www.eso.org/public/copyright/
   4. https://www.eso.org/public/
   5. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/milky-way-overlay/
   6. https://elt.eso.org/about/webcams/
   7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230211.html
   8. https://elt.eso.org/
   9. https://elt.eso.org/about/location/
  10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240315.html
  11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
  12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html
  13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html
  14. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search
  15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
  16. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  19. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=240316
  20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240317.html
  21. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  22. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  23. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  24. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
  25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
  26. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html
  27. https://www.nasa.gov/general/accessibility/
  28. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  29. https://www.nasa.gov/
  30. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/
  31. https://science.nasa.gov/learners
  32. http://www.mtu.edu/