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

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

The location is in Mount Paranal, home to the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), one of the most advanced instruments for sky observation. The planned INNA ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk ... Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT). VLT, which cost some $350 million ...

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 ...

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

A: The Extremely Large Telescope is planned to be one of the most capable astronomical observatories ever assembled. The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence ...