The southern Milky Way above ALMA

European Southern Observatory (ESO)Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi snapped this remarkable image of the antennas of ALMA, set against the splendor of the Milky Way. The richness of the sky in this picture attests to the unsurpassed conditions for astronomy on the 5000-meter-high Chajnantor plateau in Chile’s Atacama region. © B. Tafreshi (ESO)