Astronomers Discover Partner Star of a Magnetar for the First Time
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers believe they’ve found the partner star of a magnetar for the first time, helping to explain the formation of…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers believe they’ve found the partner star of a magnetar for the first time, helping to explain the formation of…
Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have measured the length of an exoplanet day for the first time, revealing that a day on…
The European Southern Observatory reveals a new image of Gum 41, a cloud of hydrogen and newborn stars in the constellation of Centaurus. This new…
This newly released image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile shows planetary nebula Abell 33. Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have…
By combining many individual images in the ESO archive, this new image shows NGC 1316 and its smaller neighbor NGC 1317. This new image from…
A surprise discovery shows that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings, making it the smallest object discovered to have…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered one of the ten largest stars found to date, a yellow hypergiant star that is more than 1,300 times…
Using the ALMA telescope, researchers discovered an unexpected clump of carbon monoxide gas in the dusty disc around the star Beta Pictoris. NASA Goddard’s Aki…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals new insights into how cosmic seeds can grow into massive stars. Cambridge, Massachusetts – New images…
This newly released image of star cluster Messier 7 was taken by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope. A new image from…
By using precise measurements of the asteroid Itokawa, astronomers have discovered the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. ESO’s New…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has charted the first ever map of the weather on the surface of a Brown Dwarf. An international team has made…
This new image from the VLT Survey Telescope shows the Lagoon Nebula, which is located roughly 5,000 light-years from us in the constellation of Sagittarius….
The new collaboration between ESA and ESO has successfully tracked its first potentially threatening Near-Earth Object. The first Near-Earth Object (NEO) recovery campaign has been…
New research from the Gaia-ESO Survey shows that the inner regions of the Milky Way assembled faster than the outer regions, revealing that the Milky…
Using the HARPS planet-finding instrument on ESO’s 3.6-meter telescope, astronomers have discovered three exoplanets orbiting stars in the cluster Messier 67 and one of the…
Astronomers used ALMA to observe the remains of Supernova 1987A, seeing for the first time the remains of a recent supernova brimming with freshly formed…
Researchers used the Submillimeter Array at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to view star cluster W49A, revealing an intricate network of filaments feeding star-building material…