{"id":6013,"date":"2025-03-17T16:08:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=6013"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:10:29","slug":"new-eso-analysis-confirms-severe-damage-from-industrial-complex-planned-near-paranal-eso-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/new-eso-analysis-confirms-severe-damage-from-industrial-complex-planned-near-paranal-eso-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"New ESO analysis confirms severe damage from industrial complex planned near Paranal &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on the facilities at the Paranal Observatory, Chile \u2014 and the results are alarming. The analysis reveals that INNA would increase light pollution above the Very Large Telescope (VLT) by at least 35% and by more than 50% above the south site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO-South). INNA would also increase air turbulence in the area, further degrading conditions for astronomical observations, while vibrations from the project could seriously impair the functioning of some of the astronomical facilities, like the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), at the Paranal Observatory &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2506\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story on ESO Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1268\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eso2506-eng.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6017\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A cosmic rainbow over the VLT &#8211; Credits: ESO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on the facilities at the Paranal Observatory, Chile \u2014 and the results are alarming. The analysis reveals that INNA would increase light pollution above the Very Large Telescope (VLT) by at least 35% and by more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[390,470,117,471,365,472],"class_list":["post-6013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-eso-2","tag-espresso","tag-francesco-borsa-en","tag-tylos","tag-vlt","tag-wasp-121b"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eso2506-eng.png",1268,386,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eso2506-eng.png",150,46,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eso2506-eng.png",300,91,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eso2506-eng.png",768,234,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eso2506-eng.png",1024,312,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eso2506-eng.png",1268,386,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eso2506-eng.png",1268,386,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>An in-depth technical analysis by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has evaluated the impact of the INNA megaproject on the facilities at the Paranal Observatory, Chile \u2014 and the results are alarming. The analysis reveals that INNA would increase light pollution above the Very Large Telescope (VLT) by at least 35% and by more than 50% above the south site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO-South). INNA would also increase air turbulence in the area, further degrading conditions for astronomical observations, while vibrations from the project could seriously impair the functioning of some of the astronomical facilities, like the&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}