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...

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...

Nov 27, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers used ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile to observe the emission nebula NGC...

Oct 21, 2013 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers has used ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile to discover and observe an ionized nebula...

Oct 9, 2013 by News Staff

 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...

Sep 23, 2013 by News Staff

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...

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...

May 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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...

Mar 4, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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...

Oct 10, 2012 by News Staff

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a beautiful image of the Thor’s Helmet Nebula. The Thor’s Helmet Nebula, also known as NGC 2359, as...

Aug 1, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Jul 27, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of researchers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered that almost three quarters of high-mass stars have close companions,...

Jun 20, 2012 by News Staff

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...