Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without ...

Despite the name, the Very Large Telescope is not one telescope ... You can learn about its telescopes on ESO's La Silla Observatory page. The VLT isn't the only observatory on Cerro Paranal.

AGC Plasma Technology Solutions is proud to announce its pivotal role in enabling the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the most ambitious ground-based ...

You can read more about the Extremely Large Telescope and how it is being threatened by light pollution. You can also see more photos of its construction. Like this article? For more stories like ...

Supersonic winds carry elements across its atmosphere, forming powerful jet streams. Using the Very Large Telescope, researc... The construction of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Chile's ...

At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope and its Very Large Telescope Interferometer, as well as survey telescopes such as VISTA. Also at Paranal ESO will host and operate the Cherenkov ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An understandable development, given the several such instruments that have ...

Taking direct images of exoplanets is notoriously difficult. The Very Large Telescope in Chile took images of its lightest exoplanet yet after data from two European sky-mapping missions indicated ...

The Extremely ... Telescope" slated for Hawaii faced fierce protests from Indigenous Hawaiians and may have to relocate. The ESO, by contrast, gets large annual contributions from its 16 member ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of ... of alien life around our closest neighboring star system in its first night of operations, new simulations suggest.

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction ... This is usually done as a planet passes in front of its star from our vantage point. A small bit of starlight passes through ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from ...