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The Atacama Giant looks a bit like Weird Barbie when viewed from above, with stick limbs and a pointy headpiece, and sits on the slopes of Cerro Unitá, looking north-east.

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The Atacama Giant is described as a colossal geoglyph. With its large design stretching across the vast Atacama Desert, it's the largest of all its kind. Related articles.

Reuters. A view of the site where European Southern Observatory (ESO) is constructing the world's largest optical telescope atop a mountain in Chile's arid Atacama desert, in Chile, January 26, 2025.

This majestic Andean giant now forms the dramatic focal point for guests at Tierra Atacama, a luxury hotel recently unveiled following a $20 million refurbishment.

Fuschia Cistanthe grandiflora flowers, shown on the left and right, were among the first flowers to pop up thanks to a rare desert bloom in the Atacama. The purple flowers (center) bloomed later.

Astronomers using ALMA have uncovered how gas and dust in planet-forming disks evolve separately an insight that reshapes our understanding of how different types of planets form. While dust lingers, ...

The Atacama Giant looks a bit like Weird Barbie when viewed from above, with stick limbs and a pointy headpiece, and sits on the slopes of Cerro Unitá, looking north-east.

The boxes are due to be assembled into one giant mirror approximately 1-1/2 times the size of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. The telescope's primary mirror will measure about 39.3 meters (130 feet ...