An exoplanet at least half the mass of Venus orbits Barnard’s star, the closest single star to the Sun, once every 3.15 days.
An artist’s impression...
Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile have captured a stunning image of the distorted spiral galaxy NGC 3312.
This VST image shows...
Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and other telescopes, astronomers have found evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole in IRS 13,...
Hyperluminous infrared galaxies are the rarest and most extreme star-forming systems and found only in the distant Universe.
Stellar, cold-gas and ionized-gas...
Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have imaged 177-341 W, a proplyd...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have produced this beautiful image of the gas cloud Gum 46.
This VLT image shows Gum 46, a nebula...
Large amounts of stars are being born at the center of NGC 4383, a peculiar galaxy located 74 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices....
The tricarbon molecule (C3) is likely produced in the upper atmosphere of Titan by the reaction of abundant acetylene with atomic carbon.
This view of...
New observations of 86 planet-forming disks provide astronomers with a wealth of data and unique insights into how planets arise in different regions of...
Dynamically active planetary systems orbit a significant fraction of white dwarf stars. These stars often exhibit surface metals accreted from debris disks....
The black hole in the newly-discovered quasar SMSS J052915.80-435152.0 (hereafter called J0529-4351) accretes around one solar mass per day onto an existing...
Sagittarius C lies just 300 light-years from Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Hundreds of thousands of...
Uranus and Neptune, the so-called ice giants, are the most distant giant planets in our Solar System. Our knowledge of these worlds was revolutionized...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected a rotating gaseous structure around an extragalactic massive young...
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses of radio emission originating from extragalactic sources. An international team of astronomers...
HIP 81208 is the first binary stellar system with substellar companions around each stellar component ever found by direct imaging.
Astronomers thought...
Gravitational lensing provides unique insights into astrophysics and cosmology. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new strong...
The millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 is known to switch between two brightness modes almost constantly, something that until now has been an enigma.
This...
Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s...
