04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
.... Impact on professional observatories The European Southern Observatory is based on three world class sites in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The biggest is the Very Large Telescope VLT which consists of four telescopes, each with a mirror 8.2 metres...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... system designed to obtain multiple images per night, covering the sky visible from Cerro Pachon in northern Chile. The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter; taking...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
... dynamics are ruled by its own mass,” explains Antonio Hales, an Operations Astronomer based at the ALMA telescope in Chile who specialises in protoplaneary disc formation. “If a disc is not very massive then it won’t matter and the physics...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...’ in outer space is The GGE was formally set up at the beginning of 2012 with representatives from 15 countries: Brazil, Chile, China, France, Italy, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Romania, Russia, South Korea, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, the...
June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
... research according their definition. The MASCARA (Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA) station at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile achieved first light in July 2017. This new facility will seek out transiting exoplanets as they pass...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
... in the 1950s may well be a perfect architectural concept for Mars habitats. The artwork ‘sands of mars’, photographed in Chile’s Atacama Desert, merges the image of a remote and endless Mars-like landscape with three geodesic cupolas...
