The Extremely Large Telescope is currently under construction, with the most recent milestones including progress made with ...

The world's largest telescope by far is being built in the Chilean desert. New aerial photos show how the instrument ...

Ground-based telescopes work best when the atmosphere between them and the Universe is kept to a minimum, making the ELT’s ...

Video and photos courtesy of ESO. Follow TI: On Facebook More from Tech On April 26, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system ...

Five new portraits of galaxies located between 4 million to 30 million light-years from Earth could help astronomers unlock the secrets of cosmic evolution.

An curved arrow pointing right. The European Southern Observatory is building an enormous new telescope high in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Even though the location is on the other side of the ...

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Atacama desert region of Northern Chile, astronomers have revealed five stunning portraits of galaxies in the local universe. The images of ...

This magnificent image from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes shows the Orion Nebula in an explosion of infrared. These two Hubble images reveal a dark, edge-on protoplanetary disk of dust ...

The first 18 pieces for one of the European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) mirrors have started their 10,000 kilometer journey from France to Chile. It’s a key step on ...

Recent progress photos of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large ... light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama ...

While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars ... eye on the sky” — ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope. From our offices in Santiago, Chile we support our operations ...