ESO Captures Face-On View of the Barred Spiral Galaxy Messier 77
This newly released face-on view of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77 comes from ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image does justice to the galaxy’s…
This newly released face-on view of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77 comes from ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image does justice to the galaxy’s…
Using ALMA, astronomers have found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block of life – around Sun-like stars at a very early stage…
SCHOTT at Mainz, Germany has completed the casting of the secondary mirror blank for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). The completed mirror will be 4.2…
This newly released image from the CRIRES instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows a giant cold spot on Jupiter, which is believed to be…
Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers show a stellar explosion in the Orion Nebula in unprecedented detail. Stellar explosions are most…
Astronomers have detected the presence of two planets in formation around the young star HD 169142, which is about 470 light-years away. The two planets…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes at the cores of…
New research reveals that the outer parts of massive disc galaxies 10 billion years ago were rotating less quickly than the spiral galaxies, like the…
Using ALMA, a team of astronomers has detected a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the Universe was only four percent…
This new Very Large Telescope image shows spiral galaxy NGC 1055, which is located roughly 55 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. This…
ESOcast 96 explores the discovery of Earth-like, potentially habitable worlds orbiting a nearby star known as TRAPPIST-1. Just 40 light-years away, the star’s diminutive size…
This newly released ESO image shows the center of the Milky Way crossed by the eerie glow of zodiacal light. The sky is full of…
This newly released ESO image shows spiral galaxy NGC 4981. Over 75 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) lies NGC 4981…
This newly released image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope shows the Cat’s Paw Nebula and the Lobster Nebula. Astronomers have for a long…
The VISTA infrared survey telescope reveals the most detailed view of Orion A molecular cloud in the near-infrared. The new image from the VISION survey…
This newly released ESO image shows a disc of rotating, leftover material surrounding the young star HD 163296. Our Solar System formed out of a…
Using ESO’s planet-hunting HARPS instrument, astronomers have the strongest evidence to date that Proxima Centauri orbits Alpha Centauri A and B. Interest in our neighboring…
With the newly installed Band 5 receivers, ALMA has now opened its eyes to a whole new section of this radio spectrum, creating exciting new…