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september 27, 2019 - e.s.o.

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time observed that a fast radio burst passed through a galactic halo. Lasting less than a millisecond, this enigmatic blast of cosmic ra...



september 13, 2019 - e.s.o.

ESO’s VISTA telescope reveals a remarkable image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our nearest galactic neighbours. VISTA has been surveying this galaxy and its sibling the Small Magellanic Cloud,...



august 07, 2019 - e.s.o.

Colourful and wispy, this intriguing collection of objects is known as the Seagull Nebula, named for its resemblance to a gull in flight. Made up of dust, hydrogen, helium and traces of heavier elemen...



june 03, 2019 - e.s.o.

VLT observes a passing double asteroid hurtling by Earth at 70000 km/hThe unique capabilities of the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have enabled it to obtain the sharpest images of a ...



may 03, 2019 - e.s.o.

ESO’s VST helps determine the spacecraft’s orbit to enable the most accurate map ever of more than a billion stars This image, a composite of several observations captured by ESO’s VLT Survey Telescop...



april 12, 2019 - e.s.o.

ESO, ALMA, and APEX contribute to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight gro...



march 29, 2019 - e.s.o.

ESO’s first #observatory celebrates half a century of astronomical researchSince its inauguration in 1969, ESO’s #lasilla #observatory has been at the forefront of #astronomy. Its suite of state-of-th...



february 21, 2019 - e.s.o.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA #hubble Space Telescope, along with older data from the Voyager 2 probe, have revealed more about the origin of Neptune’s smallest moon. The moon, which was discovered i...



february 19, 2019 - e.s.o.

This dazzling region of newly-forming stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was captured by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The relatively sm...



december 21, 2018 - e.s.o.

ESO’s Director General and the Managing Director of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory have signed the agreement needed for CTA’s southern hemisphere array to be hosted near ESO’s Paranal...



december 06, 2018 - e.s.o.

Four telescopes devoted to the search for habitable planets around nearby ultra-cool stars get off to a successful start at ESO’s Paranal ObservatoryThe #SPECULOOS project has made its first observati...



july 27, 2018 - e.s.o.

Culmination of 26 years of #eso observations of the heart of the Milky WayObservations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time revealed the effects predicted by Einstein’s general...



july 18, 2018 - e.s.o.

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode called laser tomography — and has captured remarkably sharp test images of the planet Neptune, star clusters a...



july 11, 2018 - e.s.o.

New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope show the star cluster RCW 38 in all its glory. This image was taken during testing of the HAWK-I camera with the GRAAL adaptive optics system. It shows...



june 13, 2018 - e.s.o.

Novel technique to find youngest planets in our galaxyTwo independent teams of astronomers have used #alma to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around the infant star H...