MIT Technology Review2h
How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy
Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...
Scientific American4d
World’s Largest Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat: Light Pollution from Renewable Energy
Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
Gizmodo26d
Industrial Complex Proposal Threatens Some of the World’s Clearest Skies for Astronomy
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 ...
Light pollution threatens world's largest telescopes and darkest observatory, experts warn
Astronomers sound the alarm as a proposed renewable hydrogen project in Chile threatens to disrupt the pristine night skies ...
Newsweek24d
Desert Megaproject Threatens World's Best Stargazing
The Paranal Observatory is situated on Cerro Paranal, 8,645 feet above sea level, and is home to the famous Very Large Telescope (VLT), among other instruments. The VLT played a key role in ...
Detroit News9d
Towering task: Astronomy buffs fight to save shuttered observatory near Pontiac
The McMath summer home on Lake Angelus was available ... wide wooden dome housing a 10.5-inch equatorial telescope. On July 1, 1930, the observatory officially began operations.