Overview
- Company statements confirm the INNA industrial complex will not be built near Chile’s Paranal Observatory and a new location will be sought.
- ESO’s assessment found the project would raise skyglow over the Very Large Telescope by at least 35 percent, threatening observations.
- The proposed site lay roughly 5 to 11 kilometers from Paranal, where the VLT operates and the Extremely Large Telescope is under construction.
- International astronomers, led publicly by Nobel laureate Reinhard Genzel, organized protests and an open letter urging relocation.
- Scientists emphasized they support green-hydrogen development, arguing the objection concerned proximity to one of the world’s darkest observing sites.