Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have captured a new image of part of the Seagull Nebula.
This cloud of gas known as Sharpless 2-292...
Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have released a stunning new image of the Pencil Nebula, a small part of a supernova remnant in the...
A research by a team of astronomers explores a discrepancy between the amount of lithium believed to be produced during the Big Bang and the amount of...
Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have released a new image of the globular star cluster Messier 4.
This image shows the spectacular...
European astronomers using ESO’s HARPS planet finder have discovered a new super-Earth in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese 163.
Artist’s...
A team of European astrophysicists led by Dr Vardan Adibekyan of the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, has found that metals like...
Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have captured a new and very detailed image of Barnard 59, part of a dark cloud of interstellar dust...
An international team of astronomers operating ESO’s Very Large Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1187.
This image shows the...
A multinational team of researchers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered that almost three quarters of high-mass stars have close companions,...
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357.
ESO's VLT has taken the most detailed...
Astronomers using Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured a new image of the centre of the distinctive galaxy Centaurus A.
This...
By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international team of astrophysicists has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive...
An international team of astronomers has found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from...
An international team of astronomers working with the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has found...
A team of astronomers using the Hubble telescope has studied a mid-sized black hole in the spectacular edge-on galaxy ESO 243-49 and found that it is surrounded...
Using Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile, an international team of astronomers has taken one of the finest images of a star formation...
A team of astronomers has used the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope to take the most detailed panorama of the Carina Nebula in infrared light.
The...