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

Jean Vernin, Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón, Marc Sarazin, Héctor Vazquez Ramió, Antonia M. Varela, Hervé Trinquet, José Miguel Delgado, Jesús Jiménez Fuensalida ...

AbstractBoth meteorology and optical conditions are crucial for selecting the best site to host extremely large telescopes such as the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the European project (E-ELT).

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain ...

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

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is a £775million telescope built in Chile's Atacama Desert - one of the driest places on Earth. The telescope built by 16 nations in the European Southern ...

The location is in Mount Paranal, home to the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), one of the ...

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

European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT ... The Milky Way's heart shines over construction site of world's largest telescope ...

Astronomers sound the alarm as a proposed renewable hydrogen project in Chile threatens to disrupt the pristine night skies ...