Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and ...

This new instrument works with the 2.2 m and 3.5 m CAHA telescopes covering a field of view of 30 × 30 arcmin and 15 × 15 arcmin, respectively, with a sampling of 4096 × 4096 pixels. It is designed ...

The observatory has two astronomical imaging cameras ... with a 16 Megapixel-chip having 9 micron pixels. The image scale is 0.4 arcseconds/pixel, and the camera field of view is about 25 arc-minutes.

The survey is here reproduced in 4000-pixels resolution to be accessible ... Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, the gigantic image can be zoomed ...

This striking view of the central parts of the Milky Way was obtained with the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This huge picture is 108,500 by 81,500 pixels and ...

Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab. One of the highest-resolution cameras in astronomy has been used to capture a distant star ...