Science news articles about 'chilean atacama desert'

... are very often met at Paranal, a 2635m high mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert, where the sky is cloudless more than 300 days a year. Paranal is home of ESO's Very Large ...

... Observatory, located high in the dry desert mountains of the Chilean Atacama Desert. Messier 83 lies roughly ... m above sea level, atop the mountains of the Atacama Desert, ESO's La Silla enjoys some ...

... at La Silla, 2400 m up in the mountains of the Chilean Atacama Desert. HARPS, or the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planetary Searcher, is best known as a very successful planet ...

... m high plateau of Chajnantor in the Chilean Atacama desert. Thanks to LABOCA's high sensitivity, ... next generation submillimetre telescope, ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. ALMA ...