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The mystery of the ‘Great Dimming of Betelgeuse’ solved
The images show how its brightness changed.
Iron and Nickel found in the atmospheres of comets throughout our Solar System
A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has shown that iron and...
Supermassive black holes devour gas just like smaller, stellar-mass black holes
Regardless of size, all black holes experience similar accretion cycles, a new study finds.
Most recently detected rogue comet may be the most pristine ever found
New observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and...
Astronomers image the massive object at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy
Astronomers image magnetic fields at the edge of M87’s black hole.
Astronomers captured images of the cosmic web for the first time
First images of the cosmic web reveal a myriad of unsuspected dwarf galaxies.
Astronomers directly measured winds in Jupiter’s middle atmosphere
Powerful stratospheric winds measured on Jupiter for the first time.
Astronomers discovered the most distant source of radio emission known to date
With the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered and studied in detail the most distant source...
Hubble Pinpoints Supernova Blast
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed the supernova remnant named 1E 0102.2-7219. Researchers are using Hubble’s imagery of the remnant object to wind...
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’.