At the Paranal Observatory in Chile, the UT4 telescope doesn’t just observe the stars—it actively creates artificial stars to ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the ...

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The discovery was made using the world's largest radio telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), consisting of 66 antennas across the Atacama Desert region of Northern Chile.

ESO’s headquarters and its visitor centre and planetarium, the ESO Supernova, are located close to Munich in Germany, while the Chilean Atacama Desert, a marvellous place with unique conditions ...

is a 3.000-metre mountain that lies in the central part of Chile's Atacama Desert, close to Europe's existing facilities at Cerro Paranal, where an array of telescopes has been constructed.

Scientists are hopeful that in the future, they will be able to examine Zhúlóng further by incorporating data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). ALMA is a collection of 66 radio ...

So Doeleman founded a network of observatories, collectively called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). In 2011, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) opened in the Atacama Desert of Chile ...

More than 13 billion years after the Big Bang, astronomers have found the most distant galaxy ever seen using the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT), except that this one has already stopped forming ...

The ELT is on its way to becoming the largest optical telescope in the world, and as it rises beneath some of the clearest ...