While astronomers often set their sights on the stars, the landscapes surrounding their observatories can be just as ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

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

The night sky has inspired some of our greatest works ... which will hunt for dark matter. Farther north, the Atacama Desert is a dark sky playground with many observatories and boutique hotels ...

Reach for the stars with our guide to the best dark-sky reserves on the planet, from the French Pyrenees to the Atacama ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

They had already spent a week and a half scouting other locations in the Atacama ... The desert’s remoteness and inhospitably thin, dry air—ideal for observing the night sky—had already ...

As well its peak night coinciding with moonless night skies ... in Chile's Antofagasta Region, in the Atacama Desert some 1150 km north of Santiago, on June 21, 2022. Just before midnight ...

ESO, in the meantime is calling for stricter legal protections of the Chilean night sky, especially in the vicinity of the precious observatories in the Atacama Desert. The Chilean government ...