Tag: Paranal Observatory

• Monday, January 13th 2025 - 08:44 UTC

  Chile: Starwatching endangered by industrial project

  

  The clarity of Chilean skies in the Atacama Desert may be in jeopardy given a project entertained by the electricity company AES Andes which could significantly affect the operations of the Paranal Observatory.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2011 - 07:06 UTC

  Chilean mountains hold the world’ largest space research infrastructure

  

  The Chilean Foreign Ministry officially signed over a total of 213 square miles of land to the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) last Thursday to begin construction of the world’s largest optical telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).