Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The frame of the dome that will house the world's largest telescope has been completed, marking ...

The frame of the dome that will house the world's largest telescope has been completed, marking another key milestone in the observatory's construction. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO ...

A high-stakes face-off is brewing in the arid deserts of northern Chile, between astronomers building the world’s largest optical telescope and a proposed green energy megaproject from an ...

Credit: ESO/S. Lowery Once completed toward the end of this decade, ELT will be the world's largest telescope studying the universe in visible light, featuring a 130-foot-wide (39.3m) mirror.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the ...

World’s largest telescope dome completed in Chile ELT dome will house massive telescope for groundbreaking research Telescope aims to revolutionize space exploration by 2028 ...

Scientists have warned that a renewable energy project poses a risk for the world’s largest telescope. AES Energy, a US-based company, plans to construct a large renewable hydrogen facility in ...

Such an increase would be enough to diminish the Very Large Telescope's status as the world's premier observatory, reducing it to merely an "average" facility. That modest 10-percent spike packs a ...