The nearest single star to the Sun hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as…
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a leading intergovernmental astronomy organization supported by numerous European and partner countries. It operates some of the world’s most advanced ground-based telescopes, including those at the La Silla and Paranal Observatories in Chile, and is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which will be the largest optical/near-infrared telescope on Earth. ESO’s facilities enable cutting-edge research in fields such as exoplanet discovery, black holes, galaxy formation, and dark matter. This page features the latest scientific findings, breakthroughs, and telescope updates from ESO’s world-class astronomical research.
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured an unprecedented series of images showing the passage…
ESO’s exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a…
FORS2, an instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has observed the active star-forming region…
Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast…
FORS2, an instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has observed the spiral galaxy NGC…
The Carina Nebula, one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the night sky, has…
A glittering host of galaxies populate this rich image taken with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope,…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode…
New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope show the star cluster RCW 38 in all…
ESO Photo Ambassador Petr Horálek captured this photoset while visiting ESO’s high-altitude Paranal Observatory in…
Sitting between Mars and Jupiter, the doughnut-shaped asteroid belt is packed full of rocky bodies…
Many telescopes are formed of multiple mirrors or antennas, not just one. ESO’s Very Large…
Astronomers using ALMA and the VLT have discovered that both starburst galaxies in the early…
Glowing brightly about 160,000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of…
Two spiral galaxies are locked in a spellbinding, swirling dance in this image from the…
Astronomers have used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large…
Infrared VISTA View of Stellar Nursery in Monoceros This dramatic infrared image shows the nearby…