ALMA “Dust Trap” Observations Solve Planet Formation Mystery
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…
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VLT Views Exoplanet With the Lowest Mass Ever Imaged Around a Star
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…
Sodium Levels in Stars Helps Predict How Their Lives Will End
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…
New Image of IC 2944 Helps VLT Celebrate 15 Years of Success
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…
APEX Reveals Interstellar Dust in the Cosmic Clouds of Orion
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…
Adaptive Optics Improve Measurements of the Properties of Stars
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,…
ESO Views the Star Formation Region NGC 6559
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…
ESO Views Glowing Planetary Nebula IC 1295
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…
The Blue Stars of Cluster NGC 2547
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…
Astronomers View the Aftermath of Supernova SN 1999em and Its Host Galaxy
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,…
ALMA Views Early Universe Star Factories
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…
The First Direct Observation of a Forming Planet?
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…
New VISTA Image of Stellar Nursery NGC 6357
Using infrared data from ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, this new image from the ESO reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC…
ESO Views Star Cluster NGC 6520 and Its Dusty Neighbor Barnard 86
This new ESO image shows open star cluster NGC 6520 and its dusty neighbor Barnard 86, both are about 6,000 light-years away from our Sun….
Award Winning Image of the Reflection Nebula Messier 78
Based on data from the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, Igor Chekalin created this award-winning image of the reflection nebula…
The Seagull Nebula and Its Cloud of Dust and Glowing Gas
Captured by the 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, this new image shows a section of the Seagull Nebula, also known as…
The Abell 901/902 Supercluster of Galaxies
This ESO picture of the week shows the region around the Abell 901/902 supercluster of galaxies. It was created from images forming part of the…
A View of Clouds of Cosmic Dust in the Region of Orion
This new image from the APEX telescope in Chile shows the region around the reflection nebula NGC 1999 in visible light, with the APEX observations…