Using new Hubble Space Telescope imaging and VLT/MUSE integral field spectroscopy, astronomers reveal what may…
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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.
New VLT observations confirm that the dusty gas cloud G2 made its closest approach to…
New observations reveal that the star that astronomers saw appear in the sky in 1670…
This newly released image from the VLT Survey Telescope shows the young open cluster NGC…
New observations from the Very Large Telescope along with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have…
A newly published study reveals that two massive stars at the heart of the planetary…
Using the new extreme-AO instrument SPHERE, researchers image the prototype eclipsing post-common envelope binary V471…
A newly released image taken from ESO’s VISTA survey telescope shows the Trifid Nebula and…
This newly released image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows cometary globule CG4, which is…
Ten years ago, ESA’s Huygens probe entered the history books by descending to the surface…
The Next-Generation Transit Survey has achieved first light and will focus on discovering Neptune-sized and…
This newly released ESO image shows Lynds Dark Nebula 483, which is located about 700…
This ESO image shows star cluster Messier 47, which is located roughly 1,600 light-years from…
This newly released ESO image of the week was made using the Visible and Infrared…
The green light has been given for the construction of the European Extremely Large Telescope…
This new ESO image shows bright star cluster NGC 3532, which is located roughly 1,300…
Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered alignments between supermassive black hole…
This new five minute video from the European Southern Observatory reveals the fine detail that…