A 360-degree panoramic view of the night sky over La Silla Observatory, operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). It sits at about 2400 meters above sea level on the outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert. The Milky Way appears above the northeast (left) and southwest (right). Venus and the vertically elongated glow of zodiacal light appear in the middle (southeast) above the breaking light of dawn. The Small Magellanic Cloud is also visible on the right (south). Mars is the second brightest object in this view (after Venus), shining at far left near the western horizon. The green light near the horizon is airglow; natural emission of the Earth upper atmosphere.