MEarth-South Array at Twilight (IMAGE)

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MEarth-South Array at Twilight

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The MEarth-South telescope array, located on Cerro Tololo in Chile, searches for planets by monitoring the brightness of nearby, small stars. This photograph shows the array, comprising eight 40-cm telescopes, at twilight.

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Jonathan Irwin

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