The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Chile's dark, starry skies, crucial for astronomy, face threats from urban expansion. Astronomers, including Angel Otarola, ...

Chile's dark skies, vital for astronomy, face threats from urban development. The asteroid Bennu could pose a future risk to ...

Chile’s pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial development according to astronomers. Angel Otarola, an astronomer and member ...

Santiago, Chile - January 29, 2025 Chilean national award winners have raised concerns about the impact of the INNA energy megaproject by AES Andes, currently undergoing environmental processing ...

Although astronomy excites many Americans, most are unaware of the substantial investments made by the United States and Chile — together — in pursuit of understanding our universe.

This makes any threat to the natural celestial purity of this remote region of Chile a threat to the present and future of ground-based astronomy as a whole. If the INNA project proceeds as ...

spectrograph at La Silla Observatory in Chile. The research will be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, reports The Times. Dr Cretigner, from the University of Oxford, said ...

In a new study, Dr. Valeria Olivares from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile and her colleagues analyzed deep observations of seven galaxy clusters that display prominent multiphase filamentary ...