Credit: ESO/Cover Image The world’s darkest skies are under threat from an industrial megaproject that could permanently ...

World's Darkest Skies' Under Threat From New Industrial Plant.The world's darkest skies are under threat from an industrial ...

The clarity of Chilean skies in the Atacama Desert may be in jeopardy given a project entertained by the electricity company ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for ...

A proposed industrial complex by AES Andes near the Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert could devastate the area's world-renowned dark skies. Celebrated for its vital role in major ...

"Light pollution will irreparably impact the capabilities for astronomical observation," the ESO's Xavier Barcons said.

The dark skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory, home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), yield breathtaking views so clear and so full of stars that you could almost touch them. Standing atop ...

One of the darkest slices of night sky on the planet may soon be threatened by the construction of an enormous industrial complex. This megaproject, which was proposed in December by U.S. power ...

This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world.

European countries have built some of the best telescopes in the world in Chile at a cost of several billion euros.