The Atacama Desert in #Chile has some of the darkest night skies in the world, perfect for #astronomy. But it's also a very seismic area. When an #earthquake hits, how do we keep our telescopes safe? We tell you all about it in this new video: https://youtu.be/y_nfFwKwmmM
Soon the telescope platform at ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile will look very different at night: all four of the 8.2 m telescopes of the VLT will be equipped with lasers! This is one of the ongoing upgrades of the GRAVITY+ instrument, which will allow us to study black holes, stars and planets like never before.
@astro_jcm I managed to see a guide star operating at Lick Observatory once. Photos show a bright yellow beam, but I was only able to see it in my peripheral vision. Very cool to see this perfectly straight yellow beam projecting upward from the dome!
Configuré un #bot para publicar noticias relacionadas con el rock de varios portales chilenos, la mayoría independientes.
Lo hice para evitar tener que ir a otros sitios maléficos para enterarme de las noticias, conciertos y lanzamientos de música.
The Selk’nams are also organizing to prevent the commercialization of their image & combat the ignorant view of them as an extinct tribe of Indigenous people with painted bodies.
Photographer Yuri Beletsky: ‘I captured this view at one of the remote sites of the Atacama Desert in Chile. The Galactic centre was already shining high in the sky, with the zodiacal light beautifully complementing it on the right. The blue colour was as real as the stars in the sky, adding a touch of magic to the scene’
Photographer Lorenzo Ranieri: ‘The plateau of the Atacama desert, a potentially dangerous area due to its designation as a mountain lion reserve. The area around this remarkable mass of rocks adorned with tufts of burnt grass was littered with the bones of small animals and footprints of a significant size, indicating the presence of lions’