Orion’s Fireplace: Incredible New Image of the Flame Nebula
Orion offers you a spectacular firework display to celebrate the holiday season and the new year in this new image from the European Southern Observatory…
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Mysterious Galactic Nomads: At Least 70 Rogue Planets Uncovered in Our Milky Way
Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a star,…
Watch Stars Race Around the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole at Mind-Boggling Speeds
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of the region around the supermassive…
Surprise Planet Discovered Around Extreme Star Pair
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has captured an image of a planet orbiting b Centauri, a two-star system that can be…
Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course: Closest Pair of Supermassive Black Holes to Earth Ever Discovered
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The…
Black Hole Discovered Lurking in Star Cluster Outside Our Galaxy
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how…
Discovery in a Galaxy Over 12 Billion Light-Years Away – Reveals How Element Found in Our Bones Is Forged in the Universe
A new discovery is shedding light on how fluorine — an element found in our bones and teeth as fluoride — is forged in the…
Strange 160 Mile-Long “Dog-Bone” Asteroid Kleopatra Captured in Detailed Images
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), a team of astronomers has obtained the sharpest and most detailed images yet of the…
Astronomers Find Small Rocky Planet – Just Half the Mass of Venus
A team of astronomers has used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile to shed new light on planets around a…
First Clear Detection of a Moon-Forming Disc Around a Planet Outside Our Solar System
Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a…
Mystery Solved: Astronomers Unravel the Puzzle of Betelgeuse’s “Great Dimming”
The star Betelgeuse became visibly darker in 2019 and 2020, puzzling astronomers; new images show that the star was partially concealed by a cloud of…
Stunning Galactic Fireworks: New ESO Images Reveal Spectacular Features of Nearby Galaxies
A team of astronomers has released new observations of nearby galaxies that resemble colorful cosmic fireworks. The images, obtained with the European Southern Observatory’s Very…
Astronomers Were Puzzled by “Great Dimming” of Betelgeuse – Now the Mystery Is Solved
Mystery of Betelgeuse’s Dip in Brightness Solved When Betelgeuse, a bright orange star in the constellation of Orion, became visibly darker in late 2019 and…
“Big Surprise!” – Heavy Metal Vapors Unexpectedly Found in Comets Throughout Our Solar System – and Beyond
A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has shown that iron and nickel…
Mysterious Interstellar Visitor May Be the Most Pristine Comet Ever Found
New observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and most…
Event Horizon Telescope Images Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole, has today revealed a new view of the massive object…
“Meteorological Beast in Our Solar System” – Powerful Stratospheric Winds Measured on Jupiter for the First Time
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, a team of astronomers have directly measured winds…
Astronomers Have Discovered the Most Distant Source of Radio Emission Ever Known – 13 Billion Light-Years Away
With the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered and studied in detail the most distant source of…