The cluster was discovered by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope high in the mountains of Chile.
The Atacama's main advantage for optical telescopes is the stillness of the air, which stops stars twinkling.
When NASA scientists want to test the capabilities of their Mars exploration vehicles, they come to the Atacama.
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It's also a good place to have an experienced friend on the ground, and Explora knows the Atacama.
Nestled within the Chilean Andes, the new Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array ( ALMA) is now open for space-staring business.
During spring and fall, temperature extremes in the Atacama are mitigated, and the weather in Patagonia is relatively predictable.
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One is being erected in the Atacama, and will be finished next year.
We had opted to stay at Awasi , just outside the bustling oasis town of San Pedro de Atacama.
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This is the monster: the highest volcano on Earth, rising out of the grey moonscape of the Atacama Desert.
The northern third of the country is dominated by the Atacama Desert, a spectacular region of salt flats, geysers and volcanic peaks.
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Dr. Quanz and colleagues based their discovery on observations by a high-resolution infrared camera linked to a telescope located in Chile's Atacama Desert.
Dr. Quanz and his colleagues based their discovery on observations made by a high-resolution infrared camera linked to a telescope located in Chile's Atacama desert.
They are located more than 5.000m high in the Atacama Desert.
Rescue workers in Chile are continuing their operation to free a man trapped for more than a day in a mine in the northern Atacama region.
Two other rescue experts from the northern Atacama region, along with three Navy and one police paramedic, were due to arrive at the mine later Tuesday.
Known as the driest, highest desert in the world, the Atacama Desert is full of surprises: mountains, volcanoes, salt flats, geysers, wetlands, hot springs and an abundance of animal and plant life.
"Eso's La Silla Observatory on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert is certainly one of the best astronomical sites in the world, " said Michael Gillon, who leads the exoplanet survey for Trappist.
Miners working the harsh terrain of the Atacama are part of the national self-image in a country that thinks of itself as having snatched prosperity from adversity, whether earthquakes or mining accidents.
Thanks to its strategic location between the Andes, the Atacama Desert and the Pacific Ocean, the Arica and Parinacota region was once the home of three major empires -- Tiwanacu, Inca and Spanish.
From the 1830s through the 1920s the nitrates in Chile's Atacama Desert were used mainly for explosives, but the market collapsed in the late 1920s with the invention of synthetic nitrates and the onset of the Depression.
Or he could be seen in the Atacama, gently attaching sensors to rocks as if they were living bodies, so that his data boxes could record for seven years the least intimation of something happening inside them.
Nomad, a robotic rover built by the Carnegie-Mellon Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, spent 45 days in the Atacama in 1997, in order to evaluate its ability to negotiate the kinds of rocky terrain found on the moon and Mars.
Tocopilla 4, San Pedro de Atacama.
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The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), currently being built in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, will enable scientists to observe sub-millimeter radiation waves, giving them a far more detailed picture of the universe than has previously been possible with either optical or infrared telescopes.
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