On April 26, 2018, the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Center was officially inaugurated, and…
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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.
The ALMA and APEX telescopes have peered deep into space — back to the time…
This dramatic infrared image shows the nearby star formation region Monoceros R2, located some 2700…
The SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows astronomers to suppress…
New images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other telescopes reveal a rich…
More images from the European Southern Observatory.
New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used…
The new MATISSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has now successfully made…
This ghostly image features a distant and pulsating red giant star known as R Sculptoris.…
The ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has for the first time…
A new study has found that the seven planets orbiting the nearby ultra-cool dwarf star…
A dark cloud of cosmic dust snakes across this spectacular wide field image, illuminated by…
A new national facility at ESO’s La Silla Observatory has successfully made its first observations.…
Astronomers using ESO’s MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a…
The first six hexagonal segments for the main mirror of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT)…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have for the first time directly observed granulation patterns…
The OmegaCAM camera on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope has captured this glittering view of the…
The Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) has successfully made its…