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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
A new image from the European Southern Observatory shows Lupus 3, a cloud that contains huge amounts of cool cosmic dust and a place where…
Captured using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, this new image shows 47 Tucanae, also known as NGC 104, a bright and massive…
Using the ALMA telescope, scientists have made the first direct observations of the streams of gas that flow across a gap in the disc of…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists discovered that globular clusters of the same age can have dramatically different distributions of blue straggler stars…
ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope captured this new image of the Carina Nebula, a huge stellar nursery lying about 7,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation…
Located in the constellation of Aquarius, roughly 3.7 billion years from Earth, galaxy J2240 has been identified as part of a new class of galaxies…
While viewing the young brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102, an international team of astronomers pinpointed carbon monoxide gas around the brown dwarf and found that the…
Scientists have discovered a quasar that is at least five times more powerful than any that has been observed to date. Data reveals that a…
In two new studies, scientists use data from the Herschel Space Observatory to find a correlation between the presence of massive debris discs and planetary…
Scientists detail the dwarf planet Makemake in a new study, measuring its density for the first time and finding out that it is not surrounded…
Using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers discovered CFBDSIR2149, a large free-floating object near the AB Doradus Moving Group. Astronomers using ESO’s…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers discovered that Fleming 1 is likely to have two white dwarfs at its center, circling each…