"I was completely overwhelmed by the beauty of it all, to the point of forgetting everything around me! A sky of absolute purity, free from artificial light.”

This is how astrophotographer Julien Looten remembers the night he captured this extraordinary view of our VLT at Cerro Paranal, #Chile

Wondering what all those cosmic objects and phenomena in the image are?
Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2602a/

📷 J. Looten /ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics #space #science

"I was completely overwhelmed by the beauty of it all, to the point of forgetting everything around me! A sky of absolute purity, free from artificial light.”

This is how astrophotographer Julien Looten remembers the night he captured this extraordinary view of our VLT at Cerro Paranal, #Chile

Wondering what all those cosmic objects and phenomena in the image are?
Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2602a/

📷 J. Looten /ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics #space #science

Latin America’s political mood is moving right as voters punish governments that fail to deliver, but local contexts and individual leaders shape how this trend plays out. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/09/world/year-of-the-right-looms-for-latin-america/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #latinamerica #joseantoniokast #javiermilei #nicolasmaduro #donaldtrump #nayibbukele #gustavopetro #luizinacioluladasilva #sebastianpinera #claudiasheinbaum #chile #argentina #venezuela #elsalvador #ecuador #honduras #costarica #peru #colombia #brazil #mexico

Ice.

#Patagonia #TorresDelPaine #Chile #Glacier #photography

Chile: Diputados reactivan proyecto de ley para combatir la piratería y elevar los estándares que exige el TLC con Estados Unidos

https://www.latercera.com/pulso/noticia/diputados-reactivan-proyecto-de-ley-para-combatir-la-pirateria-y-elevar-los-estandares-que-exige-el-tlc-con-estados-unidos/

#chile #dmca #righttorepair

Ice.

#Patagonia #TorresDelPaine #Chile #Glacier #photography

I felt ashamed and deeply uncomfortable at the words of our Italian PM #Meloni, who legitimizes #Trump's coup in #Venezuela: not even #Nixon acted that way with the #CIA-aided coup in #Chile

https://www.europesays.com/2677022/ Explainer | US interventions in Latin America: a history of coups and conflicts #AnastasioSomoza #Argentina #AugustoPinochet #Bolivia #Brazil #Chile #CIA #ColdWar #Conflicts #Cuba #DonaldTrump #FidelCastro #geopolitics #Guatemala #HugoChavez #JuanBosch #ManuelNoriega #Nicaragua #NicolásMaduro #OperationCondor #Panamá #Paraguay #RonaldReagan #SalvadorAllende #SantoDomingo #UnitedFruitCorporation #UnitedStates #uruguay #Venezuela #washington

https://www.europesays.com/2677022/ Explainer | US interventions in Latin America: a history of coups and conflicts #AnastasioSomoza #Argentina #AugustoPinochet #Bolivia #Brazil #Chile #CIA #ColdWar #Conflicts #Cuba #DonaldTrump #FidelCastro #geopolitics #Guatemala #HugoChavez #JuanBosch #ManuelNoriega #Nicaragua #NicolásMaduro #OperationCondor #Panamá #Paraguay #RonaldReagan #SalvadorAllende #SantoDomingo #UnitedFruitCorporation #UnitedStates #uruguay #Venezuela #washington

„José Antonio Kast ist mit deutlichem Vorsprung zu Chiles künftigem Präsidenten gewählt worden. (…) Einen derart rechten Staatschef gab es seit der Militärdiktatur nicht mehr.

Der Katholik und Vater von neun Kindern lehnt Abtreibung kategorisch ab. Er spricht sich gegen mehr Rechte für Frauen und gegen die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe aus. In der extremen Rechten ist Kast weltweit gut vernetzt.

Er unterhält enge Verbindungen zur AfD (…)“

#Chile

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/chile-praesidentschaftswahlen-jose-antonio-kast-sieger-extreme-rechte-li.3353676

How do you cool house-sized instruments to –270°C… right in the middle of #Chile 's Atacama Desert?

That’s one of the challenges behind our Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), whose astronomical instruments (the largest ever built!) must stay ultra-cold to catch the faintest cosmic signals.

The solution: giant custom cryogenic facilities, built on a scale never attempted before, as so often with the ELT 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms194oA_xaw

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #engineering

#Chile | La destra estrema torna al potere: il trionfo di Kast archivia l’eredità dell’estallido social e segna il fallimento del ciclo progressista di Boric.

Il primo articolo sul nuovissimo e bellissimo Global Project scritto con mi hermano Andrea Mazzocco.

https://globalproject.info/2025/12/cile-il-ritorno-del-pinochetismo-al-potere

#Chile | La destra estrema torna al potere: il trionfo di Kast archivia l’eredità dell’estallido social e segna il fallimento del ciclo progressista di Boric.

Il primo articolo sul nuovissimo e bellissimo Global Project scritto con mi hermano Andrea Mazzocco.

https://globalproject.info/2025/12/cile-il-ritorno-del-pinochetismo-al-potere

Chile has become the latest Latin American country to ditch the left after voters, driven by fears of crime and migration, elected their first far-right leader since the end of military dictatorship in 1990. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/16/world/politics/chile-latin-america-right/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #latinamerica #chile #venezuela #election #argentina #donaldtrump #economicsecurity

„José Antonio Kast ist mit deutlichem Vorsprung zu Chiles künftigem Präsidenten gewählt worden. (…) Einen derart rechten Staatschef gab es seit der Militärdiktatur nicht mehr.

Der Katholik und Vater von neun Kindern lehnt Abtreibung kategorisch ab. Er spricht sich gegen mehr Rechte für Frauen und gegen die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe aus. In der extremen Rechten ist Kast weltweit gut vernetzt.

Er unterhält enge Verbindungen zur AfD (…)“

#Chile

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/chile-praesidentschaftswahlen-jose-antonio-kast-sieger-extreme-rechte-li.3353676

Jose Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to steer the country in its sharpest rightward shift since the end of its military dictatorship in 1990. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/world/politics/chile-jose-antonio-kast/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #chile #southamerica #latinamerica #joseantoniokast

Mis gentes, cuidado desde ahora cuando salgan afuera. De 10 personas que encuentren, seis son fascistas y/o trajeron el fascismo a Chile. Es importante pensar en eso cuando surjan problemas del tipo por qué las cosas están empeorando.

Mis mejores deseos, pero también afrontar la realidad. Hay que equiparse, armarse y luchar. Porque la otra opción es hacer lo que hicieron esas personas, que es darse por vencido con Chile.

#Chile #Politica

How do you cool house-sized instruments to –270°C… right in the middle of #Chile 's Atacama Desert?

That’s one of the challenges behind our Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), whose astronomical instruments (the largest ever built!) must stay ultra-cold to catch the faintest cosmic signals.

The solution: giant custom cryogenic facilities, built on a scale never attempted before, as so often with the ELT 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms194oA_xaw

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #engineering