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october 19, 2023 - ESO European Southern Observatory

An international team has spotted a remote blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond. This 'fast radio burst' (FRB) is the most distant ever detected. Its source was pinned down by t...



september 05, 2023 - ESO European Southern Observatory

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy so far away that its light has taken more than 11 billion years to reach us: we ...



august 31, 2023 - ESO European Southern Observatory

With a remarkable observational campaign that involved 12 telescopes both on the ground and in space, including three #europeansouthernobservatory (ESO) facilities, astronomers have uncovered the stra...



august 24, 2023 - ESO European Southern Observatory

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot o...



july 25, 2023 - ESO European Southern Observatory

A spectacular new image released today by the #europeansouthernobservatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Lar...



october 31, 2022 - ESO European Southern Observatory

A spooky spider web, magical dragons or wispy trails of ghosts? What do you see in this image of the Vela supernova remnant? This beautiful tapestry of colours shows the ghostly remains of a gigantic ...



march 08, 2022 - e.s.o.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands have for the first time detected dimethyl ether in a planet-forming disc. W...



september 21, 2020 - ESO European Southern Observatory

The exceptional circumstances imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic led to the suspension of #science operations at the La Silla and Paranal observatories, as well as at the #apex telescope, since the end ...



april 16, 2020 - e.s.o.

Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by Eins...



march 27, 2019 - e.s.o.

Cutting-edge VLTI #instrument reveals details of a storm-wracked exoplanet using optical interferometryThe #gravity #instrument on ESO’s #verylargetelescopeinterferometer (VLTI) has made the first dir...



august 24, 2016 - e.s.o.

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits it...



august 22, 2016 - e.s.o.

The small smattering of bright blue stars in the upper left of this vast new 615 megapixel ESO image is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life and death of stars. Known as Messier 18...



july 13, 2016 - e.s.o.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has made the first ever resolved observation of a water snow line within a protoplanetary disc. This line marks where the temperature in the dis...



july 12, 2016 - e.s.o.

ESO’s HAWK-I infrared instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has been used to peer deeper into the heart of Orion Nebula than ever before. The spectacular picture reveals about ten time...



june 17, 2016 - e.s.o.

An international team of astronomers have found that there are far more planets of the hot Jupiter type than expected in a cluster of stars called Messier 67. This surprising result was obtained using...