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

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

One of the darkest slices of night sky on the planet may soon be threatened ... may be built in Chile's Atacama Desert. The Atacama is famed for its pitch-black skies and lack of light pollution ...

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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 ...

This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world. The industrial ...

Paranal telescope operator Marcela Espinoza says it's essential for Chile to preserve 'the best skies in the world' so that other countries keep choosing the region to install their telescopes ...

allowing the telescope to survey the sky. The dome and skeleton of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope under construction in the Atacama desert in January 2025. The center structure will support the ...

"The satellite image that we ordered of the clothes pile in Chile's Atacama Desert really puts things into perspective," SkyFi wrote in the blog post. "The size of the pile and the pollution it's ...

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 ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is home to some of the most pristine dark skies on the planet. Among the astronomical sites, Cerro Paranal has the darkest and clearest skies – it is no accident that ...