Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the Extremely ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope under construction in the Atacama desert in January 2025. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia The latest progress photos taken in January 2025 show cranes busy at work ...

The frame of the dome that will house the world's largest telescope has been completed, marking another key milestone in the observatory's construction. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

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 world's largest telescope ...

marking another key milestone in the observatory's construction. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...

An curved arrow pointing right. On April 26, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for ...

It was recently announced that construction on the largest telescope mirror ... for hosting several large telescopes, thanks to its clear skies, low level of rain, and very low light pollution ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope construction at Atacama desert in Chile ...

Last week’s installation of the telescope’s combined primary/tertiary mirror represented a major milestone in the observatory ...

An image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1086 obtained by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The galaxy has a distance of 47 million light-years and is one of the nearest ...