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Study astronomy in Santiago, the capital of Chile. The five-week course, Introduction to Observational Astrophysics, will be held at the University of Chile, and will be taught by Professor José Maza as part of the Yale - University of Chile collaboration in astronomy and astrophysics education and research. Students will be able to view the sky through premier telescopes at the clearest observational site in the Southern Hemisphere. In addition, students will have the opportunity to explore Santiago and surrounding areas on their own and through organized program activities.
This image of 30 Doradus, the Tarantula Nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was taken with the Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, as part of the Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS) project. The Tarantula Nebula is a giant star-forming region, where energy from hot, young stars in the region creates dramatic voids and filaments in the surrounding gas. Located 160,000 light-years distant in the southern constellation Dorado, the LMC is considered the closest large galaxy to Earth.
Photo Credit: S. Points, C. Smith, R. Leiton, C. Aguilera and NOAO/AURA/NSF
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