Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22 ...
By the 1990s, Paranal became the focal point of European astronomy with the creation of the Very Large Telescope. Mount Paranal’s dark skies make it the ideal home for VLT The VLT owes much of ...
the site of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT). VLT, which cost some $350 million to build in the 1990s ($840 million in today's dollars), is one of the world's most ...
"Moreover, they demonstrate what will be more routinely achievable with the new generation of instruments coming on-line, particularly the Durham-led KMOS spectrograph that is about to be installed on ...
"We have had a very detailed analysis of the maiden flight and obviously discovered a few anomalies and things that need to be corrected." Europe is moving towards the second launch of its new ...
The study used data from multiple telescopes, including the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, the Magellan telescopes and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope — all located in Chile ...