A mysterious bow shock around the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 is challenging astronomers’ understanding of how…
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Find the latest astronomy and astrophysics news out of the ESO VLT on SciTechDaily.com. Operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, the Very Large Telescope array (VLT) is a visible and infrared wavelength telescope facility. It is the world’s most advanced optical instrument, consisting of four Unit Telescopes with main mirrors of 8.2m diameter and four movable 1.8m diameter Auxiliary Telescopes. The four separate optical telescopes are known as Antu, Kueyen, Melipal, and Yepun, which are all words for astronomical objects in the Mapuche language. The telescopes can work together, to form a giant ‘interferometer,’ the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer, allowing astronomers to see details up to 25 times finer than with the individual telescopes.
New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions…
A runaway “rogue planet” is gorging on space dust at a rate of six billion…
Astronomers have discovered that asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Japan’s Hayabusa2 extended mission, is…
A new ultra-detailed map of the Sculptor Galaxy exposes stellar life and hidden structures, offering…
Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star,…
Astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a star exploding twice—an extraordinary cosmic event…
Astronomers have discovered one of the weirdest planetary systems yet: a possible planet, 2M1510 b,…
In Chile’s desert skies, four lasers from ESO’s telescope revive ancient Andean beliefs about a…
In a vivid image captured by the VLT Survey Telescope, the elliptical galaxy NGC 3640…
NGC 4945, a beautiful spiral galaxy over 12 million light-years away, hides a ferocious secret:…
At the Paranal Observatory, the UT4 telescope doesn’t just stargaze—it actively creates its own stars…
At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, visitors can experience some of the darkest…
Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough by discovering four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our…
Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure…
Astronomers captured an unprecedented image of WOH G64, a red supergiant star in its final…
Astronomers have unveiled new details of planet formation by observing over 80 young stars with…
Rice astronomer helps find evidence of an accretion disk around a young star outside the…