Image: Unusual trailed-zoom view of the VLT

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Description: This unusual picture shows one of the VLT's Unit Telescopes. During the exposure the camera was zoomed so that the stars, and the rest of the image, are smeared radially to create a strange and striking effect.
Title: Unusual trailed-zoom view of the VLT
Credit: http://www.eso.org/public/images/ann14033a/
Author: ESO/G.Hüdepohl (atacamaphoto.com)
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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