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

The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

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Scientists capture baby universe data from Atacama telescopes final observations Final data reveal significant insights from ...

The VLT is a powerful astronomical observatory that captures high-resolution images and spectra of celestial objects, ...

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The VLT, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert, uses the light emitted by the excited atoms to correct for the effect that our atmosphere has on starlight as it passes through. An archive photo ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

Before it shut down, a telescope in Chile captured the universe's baby photos, just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. These ...