A groundbreaking discovery by astronomers reveals a rotating disk around a high-mass star in the…
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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.
Using the ALMA telescope, astronomers have detected a disc forming around a young star in…
A spectacular new image released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) gives us clues about…
This stunning image clearly displays the well-defined arms of the spiral galaxy NGC 4254, also…
Astronomers have discovered a new type of stellar explosion called a micronova, which can…
Researchers discovered the first quadruple asteroid system by using advanced algorithms to remove optical artifacts…
Astronomers confirmed Proxima d, a Mars-sized exoplanet, around Proxima Centauri. It’s one of the lightest…
A team of astronomers discovered over 70 rogue planets using ESO and Gaia data, the…
Astronomers discovered a giant planet around the massive, hot b Centauri system, proving such stars…
ESO’s VLT has revealed the closest-ever pair of supermassive black holes, residing in NGC 7727…
GQ Lupi B, a massive “super Jupiter” about 500 light-years away, has a surrounding disc…
Galaxies exchange matter with their external environment thanks to galactic winds. The MUSE instrument from…
Sharper images reveal Kleopatra’s “rubble pile” nature and moon-birthing mysteries. Using the European Southern Observatory’s…
Astronomers found water-rich planets and a habitable zone candidate around L 98-59, making this system…
A team of astronomers has released new observations of nearby galaxies that resemble colorful cosmic…
Australia’s MAVIS instrument will remove atmospheric distortion from telescope images, offering sharper views than Hubble…
In the Universe, galaxies are distributed along extremely tenuous filaments of gas millions of light…
Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is pristine and surprisingly similar to Solar System comets, offering clues to…