The Sky Turns Above Paranal

By |2026-08-28T17:44:24-04:00August 28th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day At the latitude of ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, about 25 degrees south, Earth's rotation moves the planet's surface eastward at over 1,500 kilometers per hour. And while that's faster than the speed of sound at sea level, the motion is imperceptible. Still, that motion can be revealed in the [...]