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Dark clouds mask star formation
A dark cloud of cosmic dust snakes across this spectacular wide field image, illuminated by the brilliant light of new stars. This dense cloud is a star-forming region called Lupus 3, where dazzlingly...
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Astronomers locate isolated neutron star beyond our galaxy
This new picture created from images from telescopes on the ground and in space tells the story of the hunt for an elusive missing object hidden amid a complex tangle of gaseous filaments in one of our...
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The Milky Way arches over La Silla Observatory
The Milky Way dazzles above the La Silla Observatory in Chile, framed by the now-deactivated Swedish-European Southern Observatory submillimetre telescope on the left and ESO’s 3.6-metre (11.8-foot)...
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Planet-hunting ESO telescopes reveal Lagoon Nebula in all its glory
The four 1-metre telescopes making up the European Southern Observatory’s new SPECULOOS planet-hunting array in Chile show off their near-infrared prowess with a spectacular look at a target familiar...
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Jupiter-size star generates titanic white-light ‘superflare’
An imagined superflare from a low-mass L dwarf star, an enormous explosion like one detected in 2017 that was 10 times more powerful than any in the Sun’s recorded history. Image: University of...
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Precision ground tracking critical to Gaia mapping
A composite image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope showing the position of the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft. Such precise tracking improves the accuracy of Gaia’s sky maps. Image: ESO Gaia,...
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ESO’s VISTA captures detailed look at galactic neighbour
At just 163,000 light years away, the Large Magellanic Cloud is a glittering landmark in the southern sky, among the Milky Way’s closest neighbours and an ideal target for astronomers studying galaxy...
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ESO studies impact of mega-satellite constellations on astronomy
An image of the sky at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile about 90 minutes before sunrise. A new study of the impact of mega-satellite constellations, like those planned by SpaceX, OneWeb and others,...
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How do you give ESO’s Very Large Telescope an eye exam? Very, very carefully.
Amateur astronomers are familiar with the occasional need to carefully clean their telescope’s optics or, more frequently, to collimate their reflectors. But at the European Southern Observatory in the...
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Apparent galactic train wreck actually widely separated galaxies in chance...
This Hubble Space Telescope image, and one from the European Southern Observatory, provide two views of a pair of galaxies that appear to be smashing into each other in a cosmic collision. But don’t be...
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