The dark skies of Chile's Atacama Desert are perfect for skywatching ... Paranal Observatory. In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow of our own Milky Way galaxy is accompanied ...

A brilliant comet lights up the night sky over Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning image captured by a photographer with the European Southern Observatory in January 2025. What you're seeing ...

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest non-polar region on Earth, where "the sky shines when the sun sets", said The Guardian. Comets "burn brightly" and "flawless trails of stars" and nebulae "streak ...