This newly released ESO image shows a disc of rotating, leftover material surrounding the young…
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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 planet-hunting HARPS instrument, astronomers have the strongest evidence to date that Proxima Centauri…
With the newly installed Band 5 receivers, ALMA has now opened its eyes to a…
Using data from the Kilo Degree Survey, a team of astronomers reveal that dark matter…
The UVES instrument shows the light from quasar HE0940-1050 after it has traveled through the…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers may have found the first observational indications of a…
Using data from the SPHERE instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers reveal protoplanetary…
Using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers reveal new observations of vast…
A new survey by the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope indicates that halos…
Using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, a team of astronomers reveals the Eta Carinae star…
Using ESO’s infrared VISTA telescope, astronomers have discovered ancient stars, of a type known as…
ESO’s VISTA reveals stars that are just forming within the cosmic dust of Messier 78.…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, international teams of astronomers explore the distant corner of…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope along with the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory,…
An international team of astronomers has revealed the unusual mix of stars in the stellar…
This newly released image shows spiral galaxy Messier 98, which is located about 50 million…
https://youtu.be/piBrE4sFZG8 In this six-minute ESOcast video astronomers discuss the newly discovered Proxima b and the…
Scientists reveal that a newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might…