ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from directly above while its ...

The ELT is on its way to becoming the largest optical telescope in the world, and as it rises beneath some of the clearest ...

At the Paranal Observatory in Chile, the UT4 telescope doesn’t just observe the stars—it actively creates artificial stars to ...

This particular telescope is under construction in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the darkest places on Earth ...

Beneath Chile’s brilliant skies, the ELT grows—an engineering giant ready to capture the secrets of the universe with the ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, a new wonder is slowly emerging — the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), poised to ...

Part of the Las Campanas Observatory, in the mountains near the Atacama Desert in Chile. UChicago astronomy and astrophysics ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently shared new progress photos of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT ... Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert and expected to see its ...