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 ...
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Very Large Telescope’s First Light, ESO is releasing two stunning images of different kinds of nebulae, located towards the Carina constellation. The ...
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 ...
Distant galaxies, interacting galaxies, whose shape has been forged by the mutual gravitational influence, but also galaxies forming groups and clusters, kept together by gravity—they are the ...
Using the High Acuity Wide-field K-band Imager (HAWK-I) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured a new image of the emission nebula RCW 36, highlighting the luminous cradle of ...
A stunning new image from the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument on ESO’s Very Large ...
Room at the Paranal Observatory, in Chile, where VLT images and data from the ESPRESSO spectrograph are received. The unprecedented observation of an object in the Solar System – Jupiter – with this ...
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the largest visible-light telescope in the world, has finally captured its first images. The 2.6-meter (8.5-feet) telescope is situated in the European Space ...
ESO 510-G13, a curious lenticular galaxy about 150 million light years from us, in the direction of the Hydra constellation. Credit: INAF/VST. M. Spavone (INAF), R. Calvi (INAF) Distant galaxies, ...
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