La Silla Observatory

La Silla Observatory is an astronomical in with three telescopes built and operated by the . Several other telescopes are also located at the site and are partly maintained by ESO.
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La Silla Observatory

Latitude
-29.2555° or 29° 15′ 20″ south
Longitude
-70.73744° or 70° 44′ 15″ west
Inception
1964
Operator
ESO
Open location code
572FP7V7+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 136114855
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­research_institute
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­industrial
Wiki­data ID
Q459352
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“La Silla Observatory” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مرصد لاسيلا”
  • Armenian: “Լա Սիլյայի աստղադիտարան”
  • Asturian: “La Silla Observatory”
  • Asturian: “Observatoriu de La Silla”
  • Basque: “La Silla Behatokia”
  • Basque: “La Sillako Behatokia”
  • Belarusian: “Абсэрваторыя Ля-Сыльля”
  • Belarusian: “Ля-Сыльля (абсэрваторыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Ля-Сыльля”
  • Catalan: “La Silla Observatory”
  • Catalan: “La Silla”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕوانگەی لاسیلا”
  • Chinese: “拉西亚天文台”
  • Chinese: “拉西亞天文臺”
  • Chinese: “拉西拉天文台”
  • Chinese: “拉西拉天文臺”
  • Czech: “Observatoř La Silla”
  • Danish: “La Silla Observatoriet”
  • Dutch: “La Silla Observatorium”
  • Dutch: “La Silla Sterrenwacht”
  • Dutch: “La Silla-observatorium”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مرصد لاسيلا”
  • Esperanto: “Observatorio La Silla”
  • Estonian: “La Silla observatoorium”
  • Finnish: “La Silla”
  • Finnish: “La Sillan observatorio”
  • French: “observatoire de La Silla”
  • French: “Observatoire de La Silla”
  • French: “Observatoire La Silla”
  • Georgian: “ლა-სილიის ობსერვატორია”
  • German: “La Silla Observatory”
  • German: “La Silla-Observatorium”
  • German: “La-Silla-Observatorium”
  • Greek: “Αστεροσκοπείο Λα Σίγια”
  • Greek: “Αστεροσκοπείο Λα Σίλλα”
  • Greek: “Αστεροσκοπείο της Λα Σίγια”
  • Hebrew: “טלסקופ החלל לה סילה”
  • Hungarian: “La Silla”
  • Indonesian: “Observatorium La Silla”
  • Irish: “Réadlann La Silla”
  • Italian: “osservatorio di La Silla”
  • Italian: “Osservatorio di La Silla”
  • Japanese: “ラ・シア天文台”
  • Japanese: “ラ・シヤ天文台”
  • Korean: “라 시야 천문대”
  • Korean: “라 실라 천문대”
  • Korean: “라실라산 천문대”
  • Latin: “Observatorium La Silla”
  • Lithuanian: “La Siljos observatorija”
  • Lithuanian: “La Silla observatorija”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Silla-Observatoire”
  • Luxembourgish: “La-Silla-Observatoire”
  • Macedonian: “Ла Силја”
  • Macedonian: “Ла Сиља”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Silla-observatoriet”
  • Norwegian: “La Silla-observatoriet”
  • Persian: “رصدخانه لاسیا”
  • Persian: “رصدخانهٔ لاسیا”
  • Polish: “La Silla Observatory”
  • Polish: “La Silla”
  • Polish: “Obserwatorium La Silla”
  • Portuguese: “Observatório de La Silla”
  • Portuguese: “Observatório La Silla”
  • Romanian: “Observatorul La Silla”
  • Russian: “La Silla Observatory”
  • Russian: “Ла-Силья”
  • Russian: “Обсерватория Ла-Силла”
  • Russian: “Обсерватория Ла-Силья”
  • Slovak: “Observatórium La Silla”
  • Spanish: “La Silla Observatory”
  • Spanish: “La Silla”
  • Spanish: “Observatorio de La Silla”
  • Spanish: “Observatorio de Silla del La”
  • Spanish: “Observatorio La Silla”
  • Spanish: “Observatorio Meridional Europeo de La Silla”
  • Swedish: “La Silla-observatoriet”
  • Swedish: “La Silla”
  • Tagalog: “La Silla Observatory”
  • Tagalog: “Obserbatoryo ng La Silla”
  • Thai: “หอดูดาวลาซิยา”
  • Thai: “หอดูดาวลาซียา”
  • Turkish: “La Silla Gözlemevi”
  • Turkish: “La Silla”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Сілья”
  • Ukrainian: “Обсерваторія Ла Сілья”
  • Ukrainian: “Обсерваторія Ла-Сілья”
  • Urdu: “لا سیلا رصدگاہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài quan sát La Silla”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài thiên văn La Silla”

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