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Astronomers have spotted the birth of a new solar system for the very first time ever. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the ...
Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO, also more formally the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere) is an intergovernmental research organisation for ...
With a remarkable observational campaign that involved 12 telescopes both on the ground and in space, including three European Southern Observatory (ESO) facilities, astronomers have uncovered the ...
The red supergiant star is about 2,000 times larger than the sun. Astronomers have taken a close-up photo of a star outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way, for the first time, the European Southern ...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design ...
An image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1086 obtained by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The galaxy has a distance of 47 million light-years and is one of the nearest ...
Scientists used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope to observe the galaxy for some 50 hours, stitching together more than 100 exposures to create the picture. The image spans ...
For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop.
Poland to join the European Southern Observatory October 28th, 2014 The ESO accession agreement with Poland was signed on 28 October 2014 in Warsaw, by Professor Lena Kolarska-Bobioska, the Polish ...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star WD 0816-310. Credit: ESO ...