New theory behind the Atacama Alien mystery
The six-inch-long alien like tiny skeleton found in Atacama Desert, in Chile, some days ago, it was thought to be a child aged between 6 and 8 years old and not a foetus. Now according to Paolo Viscardo, a natural history curator at the Horiman Museum in London, there’s no possibility this skeleton could have come from a 6 to 8 years old child.
Alien-Looking Mysterious Skeleton
A six-inch-long alien like tiny skeleton with a squashed head found in the Atacama Desert, in Chile, may have earthly origins. Check out the video…
Comets Lemmon and PanSTARRS Peaking
Two impressive comets Lemmon and PanSTARRS will both reach their peak brightness during the next two weeks! Taking advantage of a rare imaging opportunity, both of these comets were captured in the sky together last week over the Atacama desert in South America. Image © Yuri Beletsky (ESO)
A Morning Line of Stars and Planets
Early morning dog walkers got a visual treat last week as bright stars and planets appeared to line up. In this image, it is easily visible from left to right, were the Pleiades open star cluster, Jupiter, Venus, and the “Follower” orange giant star Aldebaran, all seen before a starry background. Image credit: Yuri Beletsky (Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Institution for Science)
How Giant Telescopes works
European Southern Observatory (ESO) suite of telescopes located in the mountains of Chile’s Atacama Desert, which is one of the driest places on Earth, take advantage of the cold clear air. The video explains how those VLT giant Telescopes work together as one and how they overcome the turbulence and variations in the atmosphere, when peering into the vast Universe.
Construction bigins on Giant Magellan Telescope
Construction has now started on the worlds largest telescope. In this video you can see how the planned 80-foot Giant Magellan Telescope will look after its completion in 2018 atop a mountain in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
La Silla Star Trails North and South
Fix your camera to a tripod and you can record graceful trails traced by the stars as planet Earth rotates on its axis. If the tripod is set up at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, high in the Atacama desert of Chile, your star trails would look something like this. Photographer: Alexandre Santerne
VLT (Very Large Telescope) timelapse
What makes this time lapse particularly amazing–because we’ve all seen plenty of time lapse videos of the night sky–is the four telescopes in the foreground.
Green flash from the Moon
ESO Photo Ambassador Gerhard Hüdepohl has captured a rare sight: a green flash from the Moon, instead of the Sun. The photographs are very probably the best ever taken of the Moon’s green flash.
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Full moon over Chile
The dazzling full moon sets behind the Very Large Telescope in Chile’s Atacama Desert in this photo released June 7, 2010 by the European Southern Observatory. The moon appears larger than normal due to an optical illusion of perspective.
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