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Astronomers have captured a collection of elliptical galaxies in different environments
Utilizing the sensitive OmegaCAM detector at the core of the VST, a group driven by Marilena Spavone from INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte in Naples,...
Stellar corpse reveals origin of radioactive molecule in interstellar space
A team of astronomers at ESO using ALMA and NOEMA for the first time have discovered a radioactive molecule in interstellar space. The radioactive molecule...
First successful test of Einstein’s general relativity near supermassive black hole
or the first time, scientists have observed the impacts anticipated by Einstein's general relativity on the movement of a star going through the extreme gravitational...
Supersharp images from new VLT Adaptive Optics
ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has accomplished first light with another versatile optics mode called laser tomography — and has caught amazingly sharp test...
Colourful celestial landscape
New observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope demonstrate the star cluster RCW 38 in the entirety of its glory. This picture was taken amid...
Newborn planet caught in the act of forming in the dusty disc
Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany have caught a fabulous snapshot of planetary development around the youthful dwarf star...
VLT makes most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside milky way
Astronomers utilizing the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have made the most exact test...
Astronomers found evidence for stars forming just 250 million years after Big Bang
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have captured the evidence on star formation in the very distant galaxy MACS1149-JD1 suggesting that...
Astronomers discovered Exiled asteroid in outer reaches of solar system
Using ESO telescope, astronomers discovered an unusual Kuiper Belt Object 2004 EW95 is a carbon-rich asteroid while investigating a relic of the primordial Solar System....
SPHERE reveals mind-blowing zoo of discs around young stars
The SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows astronomers to suppress the brilliant light of nearby stars in order to...
Dead star circled by light
New pictures from ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and different telescopes uncover a rich scene of stars and shining billows of gas in...
New data from ALMA unveiled inner web of stellar nursery
New information from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and different telescopes have been utilized to demonstrate a web of filaments in the Orion...