First Images of the Cosmic Web Reveal Unsuspected Presence of Billions of Dwarf Galaxies
In the Universe, galaxies are distributed along extremely tenuous filaments of gas millions of light years long separated by voids, forming the cosmic web. The…
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Massive Filaments Connect Galaxies and Fuel the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes
An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Piolneering Research have used observations from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the…
MUSE Spectrograph Reveals a Universe Aglow
Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding distant galaxies. The exquisite…
MUSE Instrument Reveals a Black Hole Hiding in Star Cluster NGC 3201
Astronomers using ESO’s MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very…
MUSE Conducts the Deepest Spectroscopic Survey Ever
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra…
MUSE Instrument Reveals a Gigantic Cosmic Bubble
Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking bubble of ionized gas. Measuring more than 300,000 light-years across, three times the diameter of the Milky Way, this colorful…
MUSE Views the Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula
This new ESO image shows planetary nebula NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, as it emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles….
AOF and MUSE Provide Sharp Views of Planetary Nebulae and Galaxies
The Unit Telescope 4 (Yepun) of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has now been transformed into a fully adaptive telescope, providing a spectacular improvement in…
