Captured by the 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, this new image…
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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.
This ESO picture of the week shows the region around the Abell 901/902 supercluster of…
This new image from the APEX telescope in Chile shows the region around the reflection…
A new image from the European Southern Observatory shows Lupus 3, a cloud that contains…
Captured using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, this new image shows 47…
Using the ALMA telescope, scientists have made the first direct observations of the streams of…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists discovered that globular clusters of the same…
ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope captured this new image of the Carina Nebula, a huge stellar…
Located in the constellation of Aquarius, roughly 3.7 billion years from Earth, galaxy J2240 has…
While viewing the young brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102, an international team of astronomers pinpointed carbon…
Scientists have discovered a quasar that is at least five times more powerful than any…
In two new studies, scientists use data from the Herschel Space Observatory to find a…
Scientists detail the dwarf planet Makemake in a new study, measuring its density for the…
Using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers discovered CFBDSIR2149, a large free-floating…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers discovered that Fleming 1 is likely…
Located about 25,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Ara, globular cluster NGC 6362…
In this color composite image of the RCW 120 nebula (above), an expanding bubble of…
An international team of astronomers created a catalog of more than 84 million stars in…