Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...

Chile's pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial ...

The Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, aims to explore exoplanets for potential life and examine the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope construction at Atacama desert in Chile ...

The establishment of industrial projects in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile would severely compromise the observational capacities of the Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope ...