It's not the sky that's falling. More accurately, the Earth is rising. The Earth's rotation [
http://video.google…] gives a continually changing view to all Earth observers, including those measuring the universe at the Paranal Observatory [
http://www.eso.org/…]. The observatory's four, massive 8.2 meter telescope units are situated on top of the 2,600 meter high mountain, Cerro Paranal [
http://www.eso.org/…], in the dry Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The individual unit telescopes [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…] can be used separately or in combination. Their names [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…], Antu, Kueyen, Melipal, and Yepun [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…], are taken from the Mapuche [
http://en.wikipedia…] language. Fittingly they translate to Sun, Moon, Evening Star, and Southern Cross [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Together they are fittingly known as the European Southern Observatory [
http://www.eso.org/…]'s Very Large Telescope [
http://www.eso.org/…]. A higher time resolution version of the above movie is available here [
http://www.astrosur…].
Explanation
It's not the sky that's falling. More accurately, the Earth is rising. The Earth's rotation [
http://video.google…] gives a continually changing view to all Earth observers, including those measuring the universe at the Paranal Observatory [
http://www.eso.org/…]. The observatory's four, massive 8.2 meter telescope units are situated on top of the 2,600 meter high mountain, Cerro Paranal [
http://www.eso.org/…], in the dry Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The individual unit telescopes [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…] can be used separately or in combination. Their names [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…], Antu, Kueyen, Melipal, and Yepun [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…], are taken from the Mapuche [
http://en.wikipedia…] language. Fittingly they translate to Sun, Moon, Evening Star, and Southern Cross [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Together they are fittingly known as the European Southern Observatory [
http://www.eso.org/…]'s Very Large Telescope [
http://www.eso.org/…]. A higher time resolution version of the above movie is available here [
http://www.astrosur…].
Explanation
