The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have created a thousand colour image of the nearby Sculptor Galaxy. First discovered by Carloine Herschel in 1783 the ...

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image that reveals previously unseen features in the ...

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?

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop Cerro Paranal to the left, while the comet sets in the western horizon ...

Paranal Observatory is home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which comprises four telescopes each with a 27-foot (8.2-meter) mirror and four auxiliary telescopes with 6-foot (1.8-meter) mirrors.

A telescope in Chile has taken five beautiful images of nearby galaxies. Skip to main content. ... (ESO)’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Some of these galaxies are well-known, ...