La Silla Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Chile with three telescopes built and operated by the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization made up of 16 ...

Built in 1969 by the ESO, the La Silla observatory is located in the southern Atacama Desert, roughly 600 kilometres north of Santiago, at an altitude of 2,400 meters.

More than 60 years ago, ESO, an intergovernmental organization of 16 European nations, chose Chile’s Atacama Desert for its ...

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. For several days in ...

Cretignier identified the exoplanet signal while analyzing archived data from the HARPS spectrograph at the La Silla ...