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...
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...
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:...
European astronomers led by Dr Federico Marocco from the University of Hertfordshire have discovered a brown dwarf with unusually red skies.
Brown dwarf...
Using very precise ground-based observations with ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT), an international team of planetary scientists has found that...
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...
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:...
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...
Astronomers using ESO’s Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile has captured a stunning new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion.
This...
An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has discovered and studied a strange stellar pair about 7,000 light-years...
An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sascha Quanz from the ETH Zurich’s Institute for Astronomy, Switzerland, has obtained what is likely the...
A new infrared image from ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile reveals a landscape of...
An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered a pair of stars orbiting each other at the center of the remarkable...
Astronomers using ESO’s 4.1-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have catalogued more than 84 million stars in the central parts...
An international group of astronomers has discovered surprising gaseous spiral arms in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, also known as Centaurus A.
This...
European astronomers using HARPS instrument on the 3.6-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have discovered an exoplanet with about the...
Astronomers have discovered an unexpected spiral structure in the gas around the red giant star R Sculptoris.
Observations using ALMA have revealed an...
