The Southern Cross (constellation Crux), the Coalsack Dark Nebula, and the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) along the southern Milky Way photographed 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. La Silla was ESO’s first observatory, inaugurated in 1969. The closer dome is the 1.5 meter Danish National Telescope.