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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...