ALMA Reveals the Mystery of Missing Massive Galaxies
Using data from the ALMA telescope, astronomers shed new light on galaxy formation, finding evidence that some growing galaxies spew out more gas than they…
Using data from the ALMA telescope, astronomers shed new light on galaxy formation, finding evidence that some growing galaxies spew out more gas than they…
Using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, astronomers watch in real time as a gas cloud is being ripped apart by the…
Using two instruments known as SINFONI and UVES, astronomers were able to view a distant galaxy feeding on nearby gas, revealing how the galaxy itself…
By adding HARPS observations, along with data from several other telescopes, to previous data about Gliese 667C, a team of astronomers discovered that this system…
Using the combined power of the Unit Telescopes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gathered new data on dust around the black hole at…
A newly published study details the discovery of a new type of variable star in the open cluster NGC 3766, which lies about 7,000 light-years…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers observed a dust trap in a system called Oph-IRS 48 where dust grains were trapped and could…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have captured an image of the newly discovered planet HD95086 b, a planet with a predicted mass of only…
Researchers used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to carefully study the light coming from stars in the globular star cluster NGC 6752, finding that all of…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope celebrates 15 years of success with a new image of the stellar nursery IC 2944. With this new view of a…
In this new image, the APEX telescope reveals interstellar dust in the cosmic clouds of the Orion constellation. This dramatic new image of cosmic clouds…
Using a new instrument dubbed SAM, astronomers demonstrated the significant difference that sharp stellar images can make in our understanding of the properties of stars,…
A new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile shows NGC 6559, a star formation region located roughly 5,000 light-years from Earth in the…
This new image from the VLT is the most detailed picture ever taken of planetary nebula IC 1295. This intriguing new picture from ESO’s Very…
ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile captured this new image of blue stars in the open star cluster NGC 2547. This pretty sprinkling of bright…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers view the aftermath of supernova SN 1999em and its host galaxy, NGC 1637. About 35 million light-years from Earth,…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and gravitational lensing, scientists have obtained new measurements of some of the oldest galaxies in the universe, revealing…
While studying the disc of gas and dust that surrounds the young star HD 100546, scientists believe they have detected the formation of a gas…