The telescope, apart from its size, benefits from the exceptionally dark sky above Mount Paranal ... and protect the astronomical quality of the night skies, the health of people, and biodiversity.

Could York become a dark skies city? The university said it had introduced several of these measures on its main campus, with hopes the project could widen across York. Dr Hall, associate ...

The telescope, apart from its size, benefits from the exceptionally dark sky above Mount Paranal, which is the least light-polluted among all major astronomical locations in the western world.

The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it "Taken together, these disturbances seriously threaten the current and long-term viability of Paranal as a world-leader ...