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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

Observatory on Cerro Tololo mountain in the Chilean Andes, operated by AURA (the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy). Its main instrument is a 4-m/158-in reflector, opened in 1974, a twin of that at Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA.


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Chile is at the center of the greatest construction program ever undertaken in ground-based astronomy," says Smith, director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory home to one of the world's most-touted optical telescopes.
Scientists had dubbed the object Gomez' Hamburger in honor of Arturo Gomez of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in La Serena, Chile, who discovered the object from there in 1985.
Using a 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in La Serena, Chile, Polomski and her colleagues have found that since 1997, the amount of mid-infrared radiation emitted by dust surrounding the star has doubled.
 
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