An international team of astronomers led by Georg-August-Universität Göttingen researcher Benjamin Giesers has discovered a star in the globular cluster...
Observations of 30 Doradus, a star-forming region in a nearby galaxy called Large Magellanic Cloud, reveal that massive stars are more prevalent than models...
A new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398 in striking detail.
This image shows spectacular ribbons of gas and...
ESO’s Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) instrument, installed on the Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in...
NASA and ESO astronomers have joined forces to observe RCS2 J2327-0204, one of the most massive galaxy clusters known at its distance or beyond.
The galaxy...
The OmegaCAM, a wide-field imager installed on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope at Cerro Paranal in Chile has captured a glittering view of the stellar nursery...
Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have observed the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF),...
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...
In October 2017, astronomers were surprised by an asteroid that came racing into our Solar System from interstellar space. Now, they have determined that...
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...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a pair of astoundingly bright and spectacularly massive galaxies...
One of the largest and most detailed images of the Fornax Cluster ever created has been released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
Countless...
For the first time, astronomers have observed the source of gravitational waves, created by the merger of two neutron stars. The cataclysmic aftermaths...
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...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) have captured striking images of HR 5171, a unique binary stellar system in the constellation...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have produced the first detailed optical maps of the gas and dust distributed throughout the spectacular...
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...
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...
