In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

The team has now probed deep inside Tylos’s atmosphere and revealed distinct winds in separate layers, forming a map of the atmosphere ... La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor.

To test their hypothesis, the researchers used CUTAC profiling to examine and map RNAPII, which transcribes DNA into precursors ... Reference: Henikoff S, Zheng Y, Paranal RM, et al. RNA polymerase II ...

The Very Large Telescope resides at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama ... an atlas of the cosmos—the largest-ever 3D map of our universe. In October, ESA scientists revealed ...

It was during this passage, or “transit”, that astronomers simultaneously pointed the four giant telescopes making up ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), located on Mount Paranal in the Chilean ... a ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. . | Credit ...

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?

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 ...