This photograph was taken in Valle de la Luma, in the vast Chilean Atacam Desert. Along the horizon, lights from San Pedro are visible. The Atacama Desert is an ideal location for astronomical observation due to the lack of light pollution. Four nearby galaxies are visible in this photograph; from left to right they are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the central bulge of our own Milky Way Galaxy, and the Andromeda Galaxy.
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