Nov 20, 2014 by News Staff

European astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have found that the rotation axes of quasars are parallel to each other over very long distances...

Nov 6, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured an image of a protoplanetary disk around a young Sun-like star...

Nov 4, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) have discovered exozodiacal light – starlight reflected from dust created as...

Oct 30, 2014 by News Staff

For the first time, astronomers have detected a streamer of gas flowing from a massive outer disc of planet-forming material toward the inner, smaller...

Oct 22, 2014 by News Staff

French astronomers using the HARPS instrument on the ESO 3.6-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile have discovered nearly 500 comets around...

Aug 20, 2014 by News Staff

A group of astronomers using the Wide Field Imager at ESO’s La Silla Observatory has captured an image of two intriguing and beautiful star formation...

Jul 9, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists led by Dr Christa Gall from Aarhus University, Denmark, have discovered that supernovas – the cosmic factories of gas and dust – produce...

Jul 8, 2014 by News Staff

A group of astronomers headed by Prof Clive Tadhunter from the the University of Sheffield has discovered that the central supermassive black hole of the...

Jul 2, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile, has captured a new image of a glowing...

May 21, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a new image of NGC 3590. This...

Apr 30, 2014 by News Staff

Beta Pictoris b, a very young gas giant that orbits the star Beta Pictoris just 63 light-years away in the southern constellation of Pictor, has been found...

Apr 16, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile, have captured a new image of the little-known nebula Gum 41. This new...

Apr 3, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, has captured a new image of two galaxies:...

Feb 19, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a new image of the open star cluster...

Feb 18, 2014 by News Staff

European astronomers led by Dr Federico Marocco from the University of Hertfordshire have discovered a brown dwarf with unusually red skies. Brown dwarf...

Feb 5, 2014 by News Staff

Using very precise ground-based observations with ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT), an international team of planetary scientists has found that...

Jan 29, 2014 by News Staff

European scientists using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have learned what the weather is like on the surface of one of the objects in a binary...

Jan 22, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope in Chile have captured a new view deep inside the Lagoon Nebula, also known as Messier 8 or NGC 6523. This...

Aug 29, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have identified the oldest solar twin known to date. This image shows the Sun-like star HIP 102152. Credit:...

Jun 3, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have captured an image of a faint object circling the young, dusty, early-type star HD 95086. With a mass...