A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.
Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...
CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as ...
Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...
The scientific community is warning about a 3,000-hectare power plant that is jeopardizing the darkness of the skies over the ...
The Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, aims to explore exoplanets for potential life and examine the ...
STORY: Among the remote desert hills of northern Chile lies the aptly named “Extremely Large Telescope.”:: Cerro Armazones, ...
Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...
The telescope, currently about 60% complete ... the European Southern Observatory's representative in Chile. "We're going to see with a lot of detail, and characterize stars that are in other ...