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New image offers clues on massive planet birth

A spectacular new image released today by the European Southern Observatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using...

Astronomers discovered sibling of a planet orbiting a distant star

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have found the possible ‘sibling’ of a planet orbiting a distant star. The team has detected...

First direct image of a black hole expelling a powerful jet

For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier...

Astronomers witness the birth of a very distant galactic cluster from the early Universe

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), of which ESO is a partner, astronomers have discovered a large reservoir of hot gas in the...

Water on Earth is even older than our Sun

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected gaseous water in the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis. This water carries...

Hot gas bubble detected swirling around galaxy’s central black hole

Astronomers detect hot gas bubble swirling around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

Insight into why Post-starburst galaxies don’t form stars

These galaxies don't scatter all of their star-forming fuel, after all.

Traces of blowtorch like jet Near Milky way’s Supermassive black hole

There is a leak in our Milky way's central black hole.

NASA’s first mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection using a kinetic impactor

DART will test kinetic impactor technology by targeting a double asteroid that is not on a path to collide with Earth

One in five distant galaxies remain hidden from our telescopes, camouflaged by cosmic dust

Around 10 and 20 percent of early galaxies may still remain hidden behind curtains of cosmic dust.

Signs of water detected in a distant star-forming galaxy

The study marks the most distant detection of required elements for life.

This typical massive star-forming galaxy is about to die

This is the first time we have observed a typical massive star-forming galaxy in the distant Universe about to ‘die’.

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