Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...

We acknowledge the European Community, which granted this Extremely Large Telescope Design Study ... Fort, B. 1986, in 2nd Workshop on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, ed. S. D’Odorico, & J.-P. Swings ...

Chief among these is Paranal Observatory, built and operated by the European Southern Observatory ... at the ELT and 0.27 percent at the Very Large Telescope, also located in the Atacama Desert.

Light pollution from a planned renewable energy project in Chile could significantly impact the European Southern Observatory ...

Astronomers sound the alarm as a proposed renewable hydrogen project in Chile threatens to disrupt the pristine night skies ...

An curved arrow pointing right. On April 26, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for ...

The VLT is the most highly developed optical instrument in the world and the flagship for European astronomy. It consists of four main telescopes each with a mirror diameter of 8.2 metres and four ...

A new view from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) captures the abundant star-forming region at the center of the Milky Way. The VLT, located in Chile's Atacama ...

Artwork: Cheops observes exoplanets as they pass in front of their host stars Europe's newest space telescope has begun ... than our own Jupiter that orbits very close to a star called HD 93396.