Chile-based telescope will search for earliest stars and signs of extraterrestrial life
Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...
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World’s Largest Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat: Light Pollution from Renewable Energy
A high-stakes face-off is brewing in the arid deserts of northern Chile, between astronomers building the world’s largest optical telescope and a proposed green energy megaproject from an ...
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
Deccan Herald12d
Work progresses on giant telescope in Chile's Atacama desert
The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence of potential life on planets beyond our solar system - called exoplanets - and peer back in time to look for the ...
Space.com23d
World's largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project
having opened its first observatory in Chile on the La Silla mountain, to the south of Paranal, in 1966. Paranal took over as the hub of European astronomy in the 1990s when the VLT was constructed.
The Straits Times12d
Work progresses on giant telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert
A mirror is seen at the site where European Southern Observatory (ESO) is constructing the world's largest optical telescope atop a mountain in Chile's arid Atacama desert, in Chile, January 26, 2025.
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Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert
Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert By Rodrigo Gutierrez CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in ...