What is La Silla Observatory?
{{Infobox Observatory}} '''La Silla Observatory''' is an [[observatory]] in [[Chile]] with eighteen [[telescope]]s that study the stars. The observatory is one of the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere. La Silla is a 2,400 meter high [[mountain]] that is found in the far southern part of the [[Atacama Desert]]. It can be found about 160 kilometers north of [[La Serena]], 27 kilometers south of the [[Las Campanas Observatory]], and about 100 kilometers north of the [[Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory|Cerro Tololo Observatory]]. == Related pages == * [[Very Large Telescope]] == Other websites == * [http://www.ls.eso.org/index.html Official ESO - La Silla webpage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509172709/http://www.ls.eso.org/index.html |date=2007-05-09 }} {{sci-stub}} {{Commonscat}} {{DEFAULTSORT:La Silla}} [[Category:Astronomical observatories in Chile]] [[Category:Asteroid discoverers]] [[Category:Atacama Region]]