ESO Image of the Week: SPHERE Reveals Spiral Disc Around Nearby Star
This newly released ESO image shows a spiral disc around HD 100453, which is located 350 light-years away. ESO’s SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument installed on…
This newly released ESO image shows a spiral disc around HD 100453, which is located 350 light-years away. ESO’s SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument installed on…
A team of astronomers has discovered the hottest and most massive double star system to date where the two components are in contact and sharing…
This newly released image from the European Southern Observatory shows a close-up view of the Coalsack Nebula. Dark smudges almost block out a rich star…
Using Hubble data and new images from SPHERE, astronomers have identified sub-structures and tracked changes within the debris disk that surrounds AU Microscopii. Like many…
This newly released image from the European Southern Observatory shows the globular cluster NGC 6553. This spectacular starry field of view shows the globular cluster…
This newly released ESO image shows the rose-colored star-forming region Messier 17. This new image of the star-forming region Messier 17 was captured by the…
This new image from the Wide Field Imager camera on the 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, which…
Using the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope, astronomers get one of the best pictures ever taken of the stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula (also known as…
A new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope provides the best view to date of planetary nebula ESO 378-1. This extraordinary bubble, glowing like the…
This colorful image from the European Southern Observatory shows an open cluster of stars known as IC 4651, a stellar grouping that lies at in…
The Galaxy And Mass Assembly project released its first data at the International Astronomical Union XXIX General Assembly in Hawaii, revealing that the Universe is…
Using telescopes at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, astronomers have discovered the chemical element lithium for the first time in material ejected by a nova. This…
ESO’s La Silla and Paranal Observatories have demonstrated for the first time a link between a very long-lasting burst of gamma rays and an unusually…
Using the ESO 3.6-meter telescope, an international team of astronomers has identified a planet just like Jupiter orbiting at the same distance from the Sun-like…
The first results from the Kilo-Degree Survey have been released, helping to further expand our understanding of dark matter. The first results have been released…
This newly released ESO image shows star cluster NGC 2367, an infant stellar grouping that lies at the center of an immense and ancient structure…
Over the years the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has provided a state-of-the-art research facility for astronomers around the globe. Many ground breaking discoveries have been…
According to new observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 has swallowed an entire medium-sized galaxy over the last billion…