Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...
Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...
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Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...
Learn what this survey recorded of exocomet belts, which imaged and identified bands of every size.
"Light pollution will irreparably impact the capabilities for astronomical observation," the ESO's Xavier Barcons said.
Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts ...
While most exocometary belts in the latest study are disks, some are narrow rings. Some even have multiple rings/disks that ...
AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for ...
European countries have built some of the best telescopes in the world in Chile at a cost of several billion euros.
A proposed industrial complex by AES Andes near the Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert could devastate the area's world-renowned dark skies. Celebrated for its vital role in major ...
The clarity of Chilean skies in the Atacama Desert may be in jeopardy given a project entertained by the electricity company ...