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A few comets, 3 galaxies and a few telescopes...
Comets PANSTARRS (2011L4) and LEMMON (2012F6) and Milky Way above Paranal observatory.

© Stéphane Guisard, Los Cielos de América

Comet PANSTARRS (2011L4) on the right and comet LEMMON (2012F6) in the middle appear above Paranal observatory on this image taken 4th March 2013 just after Sunset.
The Large and Small megellanic clouds galaxies are visible slightly to the left summit while the Milky Way is rising vertically to the East on the left. The picture was taken at ESO-Paranal observatory in the Atacama desert in Chile. Three of the 4 main 8m telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) can be seen on this image.