MUSE Conducts the Deepest Spectroscopic Survey Ever
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra…
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra…
Astronomers reveal that asteroid ‘Oumuamua was traveling through interstellar space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. For the first…
Using ESO’s unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument, a team of astronomers has discovered a temperate Earth-sized planet only 11 light-years from the Solar System. The new…
Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking bubble of ionized gas. Measuring more than 300,000 light-years across, three times the diameter of the Milky Way, this colorful…
ESO’s Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) instrument at has found its first exoplanet, a hot Jupiter orbiting an M-dwarf star now named NGTS-1. The planet,…
The VLT Survey Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1316 and its rich surroundings. Countless galaxies vie for…
This newly released image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) shows V766 Centauri and its close companion. It may not look like much, but…
This new ESO image shows planetary nebula NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, as it emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles….
This newly released ESO image shows spiral galaxy NGC 1964, which resides approximately 70 million light-years away in the constellation of Lepus (The Hare). NGC…
This short ESOcast video explains why astronomers need radio telescopes like ALMA to understand phenomena in some of the dustiest and most distant regions of…
ALMA reveals a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae, helping astronomers to better understand…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers has detected titanium oxide in an exoplanet atmosphere for the first time. The new discovery around…
Astronomers have mapped the gas distribution and velocities in the atmosphere of the red supergiant star Antares, delivering insights into the fate of a star….
Astronomers have detected CH+ for the first time in the distant Universe, opening up a new window of exploration into a critical epoch of star…
A team of astronomers has constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. Observations of “Jellyfish galaxies” show a new way to fuel…
The Unit Telescope 4 (Yepun) of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has now been transformed into a fully adaptive telescope, providing a spectacular improvement in…
Using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, a team of astronomers has found what looks like three different generations of baby stars within the Orion Nebula Cluster….