Stories by Katherine Helen Laliotis

Katherine Laliotis is a freelance science writer and Ph.D. candidate in astrophysics. She often covers stories at the intersection of science and society.

A webcam image of the construction site of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones, in Chile's Atacama Desert. Behind the steel structure of the partially built telescope, the starry sky is dominated by the core of the Milky Way and the Large and Small Magellanic clouds

AstronomyJanuary 30, 2025

World’s Largest Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat: Light Pollution from Renewable Energy

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution and other unwanted side effects from the proposed construction of a renewable energy megaproject

Katherine Helen Laliotis