Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...

Today, the observatory is home to a variety of telescopes, as well as artifacts like Lowell's first telescope, classic scientific books and instruments built by the observatory's scientists for ...

ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...

A vast industrial plant threatens the European Southern Observatory's Paranal telescope planned only a few kilometers from the site. The ESO recently released a statement calling on the government ...

The nebulosity of hydrogen gas is revealed with the use of a “Hydrogen-Alpha” filter in an astro image of the Cygnus ...

Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which is currently under construction. When completed, the ELT will be the ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the ... In these gorgeous photos from the Paranal Observatory, it's not hard to see why.