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Blanco Telescope dome at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
The Blanco Telescope dome at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile that housed the Dark Energy Camera used for the recently completed Dark Energy Survey.
[Research supported by National Science Foundation grants AST 1515804 and AST 1615555.]
Learn more in the University of Pennsylania news story New minor planets beyond Neptune. (Date image taken: Oct. 8, 2012; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: July 8, 2020)
Credit: Reidar Hahn, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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