The Travelogue of an Astronomer

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Mar 2005

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The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 9, p. 33.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Roque De Los Muchachos Observatory, Telescopes

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Roughly 3 million years back, a series of volcanic eruptions raised a huge mass of land to a height of over 3000 meters. The primary volcano lost its fight to gravity and eventually collapsed 500,000 years ago to form a huge caldera. Today this is the most dominant feature on the island of La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco. The rim of the caldera is now populated with instruments designed to answer some of humanity's most profound questions about our place in the universe. Three million years of landscaping has provided astronomers an ideal place to gaze at the heavens.

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