New VLT Image of Cometary Globule CG4
This newly released image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows cometary globule CG4, which is located about 1300 light-years from Earth. Like the gaping mouth…
This newly released image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows cometary globule CG4, which is located about 1300 light-years from Earth. Like the gaping mouth…
Ten years ago, ESA’s Huygens probe entered the history books by descending to the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Humanity’s first successful attempt to…
The Next-Generation Transit Survey has achieved first light and will focus on discovering Neptune-sized and smaller planets, with diameters between two and eight times that…
This newly released ESO image shows Lynds Dark Nebula 483, which is located about 700 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens. Some of the…
This ESO image shows star cluster Messier 47, which is located roughly 1,600 light-years from Earth. This spectacular image of the star cluster Messier 47…
This newly released ESO image of the week was made using the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy. This image shows a region of…
The green light has been given for the construction of the European Extremely Large Telescope — a 39-meter aperture optical and infrared telescope sited on…
This new ESO image shows bright star cluster NGC 3532, which is located roughly 1,300 light-years away. NGC 3532 is a bright open cluster located…
Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered alignments between supermassive black hole axes separated by billions of light-years. New observations with ESO’s…
This new five minute video from the European Southern Observatory reveals the fine detail that has never been seen before in a planet-forming disc. ESOcast…
Using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, astronomers have discovered exozodiacal light close to the habitable zones around nine nearby stars. This light is starlight reflected…
New research details the discovery of a streamer of gas flowing from a massive outer disc toward the inner reaches of the double star system…
Astronomers make the most complete census of comets around another star, revealing that individual comets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris belong to two distinct families…
A team of astronomers used the APEX telescope to probe the Spiderweb Cluster, revealing that much of the star formation taking place is hidden by…
This new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows of one of the most star-rich open clusters currently known — Messier 11, also known as…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) and several other radio telescopes, astronomers find direct evidence that merging galaxies can form disc galaxies instead of…
ESO’s Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile captured this new image of Lupus 4, which is located about 400 light-years away…
Astronomers have obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age….