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?
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Watch asteroid 2024 YR4 zoom harmlessly through space after risk of hitting Earth falls to near zero (video)The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.
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Say Goodbye to the Brightest Comet of 2025A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...
New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the asteroid with ...
“Out of science fiction”: First 3D observations of an exoplanet’s atmosphere reveal a unique climate
At Cerro Armazones, near Paranal, we are building “the world’s biggest eye on the sky” — ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope. From our offices in Santiago, Chile we support our operations in ...
Chile’s pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial ...
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