The scientific community is warning about a 3,000-hectare power plant that is jeopardizing the darkness of the skies over the ...

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 ...

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and ... amid an orange-streaked night sky, and over the days that follow I find that the bronze is regularly broken ...

CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors ... It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth for astronomy.

In the Atacama Desert, we visited local schools in San Pedro and Toconao with two 2016 ambassadors who’d returned to Chile for outreach ... get ready to view the southern sky for the first ...

The sun beats down from the sky and it is exhausting to walk ... South America's answer to the Sahara, the southern part of the Atacama Desert is known as the "Mar de Dunas" with a "sea of ...

The European Southern Observatory is at serious risk of losing the clear skies above its Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert ... Night project. The researchers found that the night sky ...

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 ...

CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile, Jan 28 (Reuters ... It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth for astronomy. The telescope is located on ...

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 ...