Scientists at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan & Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered that…
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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.
Astronomers have uncovered a low-mass planet orbiting α Centauri B, a member of the stellar…
R Sculptoris, an elderly star, located 1,500 light-years from Earth, has been observed in the…
The above image of Thor’s Helmet Nebula was chosen as the winner of a competition…
A close-up view of the head of the Seagull Nebula, which is located roughly 3,700…
A new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s…
Using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of astronomers discovered molecules of a simple…
Located about 600–700 light-years away from Earth in the Ophiuchus constellation, Barnard 59 forms the…
Captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope, this new image from the European Southern Observatory is…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study a sample of 71 O-type single stars and…
Taken by ESO’s VISTA survey telescope, this popular image shows a wide-field view of the…
Using three telescopes (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile, Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii, and…
Using the European Space Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of scientists believes that…
While monitoring the movement of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of…
New images from European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope show detailed images of NGC 6357,…
New images captured by the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope show clouds of cosmic dust threaded…
A new study is going against widely believed theories about dark matter. While using telescopes…