The Unit Telescope 4 (Yepun) of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has now been transformed…
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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.
Using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, a team of astronomers has found what looks like three…
The European Southern Observatory’s image of the week gives us a closer look at spiral…
This newly released face-on view of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77 comes from ESO’s…
Using ALMA, astronomers have found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block of…
SCHOTT at Mainz, Germany has completed the casting of the secondary mirror blank for ESO’s…
This newly released image from the CRIRES instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows a…
Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers show a stellar explosion in…
Astronomers have detected the presence of two planets in formation around the young star HD…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material…
New research reveals that the outer parts of massive disc galaxies 10 billion years ago…
Using ALMA, a team of astronomers has detected a huge mass of glowing stardust in…
This new Very Large Telescope image shows spiral galaxy NGC 1055, which is located roughly…
https://youtu.be/bBr0C_lzDm4 ESOcast 96 explores the discovery of Earth-like, potentially habitable worlds orbiting a nearby star…
This newly released ESO image shows the center of the Milky Way crossed by the…
This newly released ESO image shows spiral galaxy NGC 4981. Over 75 million light-years away…
This newly released image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope shows the Cat’s Paw…
The VISTA infrared survey telescope reveals the most detailed view of Orion A molecular cloud…