Chile's celestial crisis: Can dark skies survive development?
Paranal telescope operator Marcela Espinoza says it's essential for Chile to preserve 'the best skies in the world' so that other countries keep choosing the region to install their telescopes ...
Lasers, ladders and a leap: Photos of the week
PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — A Mardi Gras-themed event is coming to Pensacola Beach for tourists and vacationers to enjoy, ...
Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert
CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as ...
Scientific American8d
World’s Largest Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat: Light Pollution from Renewable Energy
Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
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 ...
El País in English13d
Industrial mega-project in Chile threatens one of the most important astronomical observatories in the world
The scientific community is warning about a 3,000-hectare power plant that is jeopardizing the darkness of the skies over the ...
The Straits Times9d
Work progresses on giant telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert
It is a 1.45 billion euros ($1.51 billion) project of the European Southern Observatory intergovernmental ... It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best ...
Question Corner: A piercing eye in the desert
The telescope is a project of the European Southern Observatory intergovernmental research organisation and is under ...