A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile could increase night-time sky brightness at one of the world's most ...
The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...
JOHN BARTLETT, BYLINE: When night falls over the Paranal Observatory, which operates one ... the best place in the world to observe the night sky, but this could soon change.
An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on ...
Want to see planets up close in the night sky? The Celestron NexStar 4SE ... Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama ...
With its clear, dark skies, northern Chile is home to two fifths of the world's astronomical infrastructure, but could that be under threat with increasing urbanisation and mining development?