Note: images online at http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/phot-04-02.html With its new NAOS-CONICA Adaptive Optics facility, the ESO Very Large Telescope ...
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens in 1655 and certainly deserves its name. With a diameter of no less than 5,150 km, it is larger than Mercury and ...
Our solar system is filled with asteroids of all shapes and sizes. Many of them live in the asteroid belt, but some have spent their lives in other areas. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has ...
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Lasers target the Tarantula Nebula with 'artificial stars' | Space photo of the day for Nov. 18, 2025
Recently, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) used its powerful interferometer, also called the VLTI, as part of its GRAVITY+ ...
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A Photographer Captured the Most Amazing Photo of the Milky Way Arc, and Now It’s at Risk
If you’ve ever looked up at the night sky and marveled at the sheer number of stars, imagine being able to see the Milky Way ...
Very promising start-up of new adaptive optics instrument at Paranal A team of astronomers and engineers from French and German research institutes and ESO at the Paranal Observatory is celebrating ...
Several billion miles from Earth, Neptune's looking particularly sharp in a set of new images captured by one of the most powerful telescopes in the world. Located in Chile, the European Southern ...
July 16 (UPI) --A new survey by European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has revealed the Milky Way's galactic neighbors in all their colorful brilliance. The diversity of galactic ...
The MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer - https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/vlt/vlt-instr/muse/) instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope ...
In preparation for the imminent arrival of NASA’s Juno spacecraft, astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to obtain spectacular new infrared images of Jupiter. They are part of a campaign to ...
A gorgeous new image of a distant nebula has been captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s VLT Survey Telescope. It shows part of the Sh2-284 nebula, a rarely imaged but stunning cloud of ...
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 and other ...
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