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Stories about: Paranal

Gegenschein, Blue and Green Flashes of the Sun Seen from Paranal Ideal atmospheric conditions are often required during astronomical observations, since Earth's atmosphere has a distorting effect on the light traveling through it. In fact, the air in the atmosphere acts as a giant prism thus dispersing and decomposing light into its basic wavelengths, also known as 'colo... 5 May 2008 05:20 GMT VLT Home, Stage for Next James Bond Movie European Organization for Astronomical Research's Very Large Telescope is located on a 2,600-meter high mountain in the Atacama Desert in Chile, Cerro Paranal. The same location will be used to film some scenes of the next James Bond movie, 'Quantum of Solace'. The eerie environment with its red sand a... 25 March 2008 09:58 GMT