Astronomy’s future hangs in the balance as a massive renewable energy project threatens to flood one of the world’s darkest ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a light pollution risk due to ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

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Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...

"Light pollution will irreparably impact the capabilities for astronomical observation," the ESO's Xavier Barcons said.

That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field ...

Credit: ESO/Cover Image The world’s darkest skies are under threat from an industrial megaproject that could permanently ...

AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for ...

The Paranal Observatory will also host the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently ... dark skies of the Atacama. The desert's arid climate and high altitude ensure clear skies for over 300 ...