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 metres above sea level on the outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert. The closest dome in the view is the 1.5 meter Danish National Telescope. The Milky Way appears over the east (left) and southwest (middle-right). Venus and the vertically elongated faint glow of zodiacal light are above the domes on the left. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are in the middle (south) over the light dome of La Serena, the closest city, at about 90 km direct distance. Mars is next to the Danish telescope, and the secodn brightest object in this view after Venus. The green light near the horizon, specially over the south, is airglow; natural emission of the Earth upper atmosphere.