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ESO Releases New Images of Saturn and Io

The European Southern Observatory released stunning new images of the planet Saturn and Jupiter's moon Io on Friday - the sharpest ever taken by a ground observatory. The photographs were taken using the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, which rivals the Hubble Space Telescope in image clarity. This is an almost perfect view of Saturn, taken when the planet's rings were tilted towards the Earth.

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