Tag Archive for 'VLT'

This image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows two bright galactic nuclei, each housing a supermassive black hole, in NGC 7727. Image credit: ESO / Voggel et al.

Astronomers Find Two Supermassive Black Holes in NGC 7727

Dec 1, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The supermassive black hole pair, located in the peculiar galaxy NGC 7727, is about 89 million light-years away from Earth, making it the record holder...

This artist’s impression shows NGC 1850 BH1 and a massive star orbiting it. The distortion of the star’s shape is due to the strong gravitational force exerted by the black hole. Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.

Astronomers Detect Stellar-Mass Black Hole in Large Magellanic Cloud

Nov 12, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a low-mass black hole in the...

An artist’s conception of the HR 858 planetary system. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Two Planets in HD 3167 System are on Perpendicular Orbits, Astronomers Say

Nov 2, 2021 by Natali Anderson

The super-Earth HD 3167b is close to orbiting within the stellar equatorial plane, while the mini-Neptune HD 3167c orbits above the poles of the host star,...

This image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the central region of NGC 5248, a spiral galaxy located some 59 million light-years away in the constellation of Boötes. Image credit: ESO / VLT / MUSE / TIMER Survey.

VLT Focuses on Spiral Galaxy NGC 5248

Oct 26, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have imaged the innermost regions of the compact intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 5248. This image from...

This image depicts 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. The images of the asteroids were captured with the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser / Vernazza et al. / MISTRAL algorithm / ONERA / CNRS.

Astronomers Capture Images of 42 Large Main-Belt Asteroids

Oct 13, 2021 by News Staff

Using the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have conducted...

This Hubble image shows GAL-CLUS-022058-38303, the largest, nearly-complete Einstein ring known. The image is made up of observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in the infrared and optical parts of the spectrum. Three filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Saurabh Jha, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey / L. Shatz.

Astronomers Study ‘Molten Einstein Ring’ in Detail

Sep 23, 2021 by News Staff

Located in the southern constellation of Fornax, GAL-CLUS-022058-38303 is a so-called Einstein ring — a distorted image of a gravitationally lensed...

This processed image, based on observations taken in July 2017, shows the two moons of the asteroid Kleopatra and its two moons, AlexHelios and CleoSelene. The moons are difficult to see in the raw images -- which were taken with the SPHERE instrument on VLT -- owing to glare around the asteroid, inherent to this kind of adaptive-optics observations. Image credit: ESO / Vernazza / Marchis et al. / MISTRAL algorithm / ONERA / CNRS.

VLT Observes Asteroid Kleopatra and Its Moons

Sep 9, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have determined the 3D shape and the mass of the asteroid (216) Kleopatra and correct orbits of its...

This artist’s impression shows the warm terrestrial planet L 98-59b. Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.

Five Exoplanets Orbit Nearby Red Dwarf Star

Aug 6, 2021 by Natali Anderson

The L 98-59 planetary system contains two non-transiting planets and three transiting terrestrial planets, one of which is a warm rocky world with half...

Schematics of the observations of TYC 8998-760-1b using SINFONI on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The background image is captured by the SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope. The small blue box marks the field of view of SINFONI observations targeting TYC 8998-760-1b. Both the host star and TYC 8998-760-1c are outside the field of view. An example of the wavelength-collapsed image is shown in the enlarged blue box, showing negligible contribution from starlight. Image credit: ESO / Bohn et al. / Zhang et al.

Astronomers Detect Carbon-13 in Atmosphere of Young Super-Jupiter

Jul 28, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have detected the isotopically substituted carbon monoxide, 13CO, in the atmosphere of the young giant exoplanet...

This image combines observations of the nearby galaxies NGC 1300, NGC 1087, NGC 3627 (top, from left to right), NGC 4254 and NGC 4303 (bottom, from left to right) taken with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Image credit: ESO / PHANGS.

Astronomers Focus on Star-Forming Regions in Nearby Galaxies

Jul 16, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers know that stars are born in clouds of gas, but what sets off star formation, and how galaxies as a whole play into it, remains a mystery. To...

This artist’s impression shows the evolution of the Universe beginning with the Big Bang on the left followed by the appearance of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The formation of the first stars ends the cosmic dark ages, followed by the formation of galaxies. Image credit: M. Weiss / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

First Generation of Stars Emerged 250-350 Million Years after Big Bang, Astronomers Say

Jun 24, 2021 by News Staff

A team of astronomers from the United Kingdom and the United States has examined six of the most distant galaxies currently known and found that the distance...

This artist’s impression was generated using an image of Betelgeuse from 2019 taken with the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Image credit: ESO / NASA / ESA / Hubble / M. Kornmesser.

Dust Cloud Caused Betelgeuse’s Great Dimming Event, Astronomers Say

Jun 17, 2021 by News Staff

Betelgeuse, which is located roughly 724 light-years away in the constellation of Orion, is the second-closest red supergiant to Earth. From November 2019...

This image, taken by the FORS2 instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows the grand design spiral galaxy Messier 99. It is based on data obtained through four filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: ESO.

VLT Observes Grand Design Spiral Galaxy Messier 99

Jun 7, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

ESO has released a beautiful photo taken by the FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the spiral...

This image shows the Milky Way-like galaxy UGC 10738. Image credit: Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg / SIMBAD / PanSTARRS.

Milky Way Galaxy Evolved Gradually, Astronomers Say

May 25, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have observed UGC 10738, a nearby, edge-on Milky Way-like galaxy,...

Iron and Nickel Detected in Atmospheres of Solar System Comets

May 20, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have detected neutral atoms of two heavy metals — iron (Fe I) and nickel (Ni I) — in the atmospheres...

This image shows the spectrum of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov on the bottom right superimposed to a real photo of the comet taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope in 2019; the lines of nickel are indicated by orange dashes. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada / O. Hainaut / P. Guzik & M. Drahus.

Astronomers Detect Nickel in Coma of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

May 19, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Using spectroscopic observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a duo of astronomers from Poland has detected atomic nickel vapor in the cold coma...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows the HII region DG121, which is also known as RCW 7, GAL 232.62+01.00, and IRAS 07299-1651. The brightest star in DG121, seen near the center in the picture, is HD 60068. Image credit: ESO.

VLT Observes Huge Cloud of Ionized Hydrogen

May 11, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have taken a picture of DG121, a HII region located in the constellation of Puppis. This image, taken with...

This image shows Markarian 739, a pair of merging galaxies some 425 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo. Image credit: ESO / Tubín et al., doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abedba.

Astronomers Observe Nearby Galaxy with Two Bright Cores

Apr 27, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have performed spectroscopic observations...

A direct image of the massive exoplanet YSES 2b and its host star. Image credit: ESO / SPHERE / VLT / Bohn et al.

Astronomers Directly Image Giant Planet around Young Sun-Like Star

Apr 20, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered and directly...

This composite image shows the barred spiral galaxy Messier 61. The color image is made up of observations from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile in the near-infrared and optical parts of the spectrum. It is based on data obtained through six filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / ESO / J. Lee / PHANGS-HST Team.

Hubble Captures Stunning New Image of Messier 61

Apr 5, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an amazing new photo of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61. This composite image...

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