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EuroNews in the Atacama Desert

The Paranal Observatory is located on top of Cerro Paranal, a 3000 metre-high mountain in the Atacama Desert in the Northern part of Chile. Its enormous telescopes help us understand the dynamics of astrophysics and discover new planets. This week EuroNews visits this key medium for European astronomy.

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1. Discovery sheds new light on cause of earthquakes
   12-13-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Research at the University of Liverpool into a large fault zone in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile has produced new insight into how fluid pressure can cause earthquakes.
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2. EuroNews visits ALMA
   05-25-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
   The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, or ALMA, is an international collaboration to develop a world-class telescope array to study the universe from a site in the foothills of Chile's Andes Mountains. The project is a partnership between Europe, Japan and North America in cooperation with the Republic of Chile.
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3. The planet, the galaxy and the laser
   08-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
   On the night of July 21, ESO astronomer Yuri Beletsky took images of the night sky above Paranal, the 2600-meter high mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert home to ESO's Very Large Telescope. The amazing images bear witness to the unique quality of the sky, revealing not only the Milky Way in all its splendour but also the planet Jupiter and the laser beam used at Yepun, one of the 8.2-meter telescopes that make up this extraordinary facility.
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4. Worldwide effort bringing ALMA telescope into reality
   02-15-2008 · EurekAlert!
   In the thin, dry air of northern Chile's Atacama Desert, at an altitude of 16,500 feet, an amazing new telescope system is taking shape, on schedule to provide the world's astronomers with unprecedented views of the origins of stars, galaxies, and planets. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array will open an entirely new "window" on the Universe, allowing scientists to unravel longstanding and important astronomical mysteries.
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5. U. of Colorado study shows desert droughts lead to earlier annual mountain snow loss
   06-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
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6. ESA's time machine
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7. EuroNews looks at monitoring the changing environment
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8. The antenna bride and bridegroom
   03-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
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10. EuroNews on space weather
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