New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

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

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

taken by Yuri Beletsky on 19 January from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The comet poses next to one of the Auxiliary Telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Links ...

A vast industrial plant threatens the European Southern Observatory's Paranal telescope planned only a few kilometers from the site. The ESO recently released a statement calling on the government ...

Laser beams leave the dome of a Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory in Atacama desert, Chile, January 25, 2025. Photo: Reuters CERRO ...

"And that is enough to make a difference between the best observatory in the world and an average observing place." Mount Paranal, an 8,740-foot-high (2,664 m) peak in the Atacama Desert of ...

The Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama desert is home to the world's most powerful telescope - Copyright AFP RODRIGO ARANGUA The Paranal Observatory in Chile's ...

Angel Otarola, an astronomer and member of the light pollution committee of the Chilean Astronomical Society (SOCHIAS), says light pollution around the state-of-the-art Paranal Observatory is ...

The area is home to the Paranal Observatory, which houses the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, used by astronomers to search the Milky Way with "unparalleled clarity ...