Dec 1, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have observed the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF),...

Nov 24, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered an enormous cloud of gas around an extremely distant quasar called 4C 10.29. This...

Nov 21, 2017 by News Staff

In October 2017, astronomers were surprised by an asteroid that came racing into our Solar System from interstellar space. Now, they have determined that...

Nov 15, 2017 by Natali Anderson

A rocky exoplanet roughly the same size as Earth has been discovered orbiting a nearby low-mass star, thanks to new data gathered by ESO’s High Accuracy...

Nov 13, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a pair of astoundingly bright and spectacularly massive galaxies...

Oct 25, 2017 by News Staff

One of the largest and most detailed images of the Fornax Cluster ever created has been released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Countless...

Oct 17, 2017 by News Staff

For the first time, astronomers have observed the source of gravitational waves, created by the merger of two neutron stars. The cataclysmic aftermaths...

Oct 12, 2017 by News Staff

A new study in the Astronomical Journal finds that giant exoplanets with long-period orbits are more likely to be found around young stars that have a...

Oct 5, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) have captured striking images of HR 5171, a unique binary stellar system in the constellation...

Sep 28, 2017 by News Staff

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have produced the first detailed optical maps of the gas and dust distributed throughout the spectacular...

Sep 27, 2017 by News Staff

The MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has taken a picture of NGC 1964, an incredibly beautiful spiral galaxy in the constellation...

Sep 14, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected titanium oxide in the atmosphere of the hot-Jupiter exoplanet WASP-19b. An artist’s...

Aug 31, 2017 by News Staff

For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of CH+ — an ion of the CH molecule known as methylidynium to chemists — in distant...

Aug 23, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers from Chile and Germany has managed to capture an image of unprecedented detail of another star — that isn’t...

Aug 17, 2017 by News Staff

An international research team, led by Dr. Bianca Poggianti of the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Padova, has used the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very...

Aug 10, 2017 by News Staff

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory in Chile has snapped an amazing new photo of NGC 7098, a spiral galaxy with numerous sets of...

Jul 9, 2017 by Sergio Prostak

Using an adaptive optics system and coronagraphic facility at ESO’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered and directly...

Jul 7, 2017 by News Staff

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of the spiral galaxy Messier 77. This image shows the barred spiral galaxy Messier...

Jul 5, 2017 by News Staff

A new estimate suggests that the Milky Way’s population of brown dwarfs — objects too large to be a planet but too small to be a star — exceeds...

Jun 14, 2017 by News Staff

Two spectacular and famous nebulae — the Eagle Nebula and the Omega Nebula — share the stage with their lesser-known neighbor, a glowing cloud...