A new study in the journal Science has revealed that 3 billion years after the Big Bang, elliptical galaxies still made stars on their outskirts, but no...
A group of astronomers headed by Dr Andreas Eckart from the University of Cologne, Germany, has made the best observations so far of a dusty red object...
Dusty star nurseries, clusters and emission nebulae can be seen in this composite image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope at Paranal Observatory, Chile.
This...
An ancient ocean on the Red Planet covered a greater portion of the surface than the Atlantic Ocean does on our planet and held more water than Arctic...
An international team of scientists, headed by Dr Darach Watson of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, has used the X-ray instrument on ESO’s Very...
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile have been able to get...
At the heart of the unusual planetary nebula Henize 2-428, a group of astronomers led by Dr Miguel Santander-Garcia from the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional...
A stunning new image of the cometary globule CG4 has been obtained by a group of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope.
This image shows the cometary...
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...
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...
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...
European astronomers led by Dr Federico Marocco from the University of Hertfordshire have discovered a brown dwarf with unusually red skies.
Brown dwarf...
An international group of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope has captured a detailed image of the reflection nebula IC 2220, also known as the...
Astronomers have used ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope to produce a stunning new image of a large stellar nursery called the Prawn Nebula.
This image shows...
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...
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...
