VLT Zooms in on Nearby Triangulum Galaxy
A new close-up of the Triangulum galaxy, captured with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), traces the tangled gas…
VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were…
VLT Reveals Secrets of Old Stellar Couple
A stunning new image from the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT)…
Glowing Nebula Turns Out to Be Stellar Cradle
The Vela Junior supernova, also known as RX J0852.0-4622 or G266.2-1.2, exploded a few thousand years ago, leaving…
Astronomers surprised by mysterious shock wave around dead star
Press Release 12 January 2026 Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with…
VLT Reveals Detailed Spectral Portrait of 3I/ATLAS
An international team of astronomers from Chile, Europe, the United States, Canada and New Zealand has captured the…
Scientists Suddenly Can’t Explain How Stellar Winds Spread the Seeds of Life Throughout the Cosmos
New observations from scientists at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology have cast doubt on the long-held idea that…
Webb Detects Earliest-Known Supernova Explosion
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a supernova explosion accompanying the gamma-ray burst event…
These celestial objects survive the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
At the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole about 4 million…
Webb Spots Four Distinct Dust Shells around Two Wolf-Rayet Stars
Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two team of…
For the first time, astronomers observed the first moments of a supernova shock wave
Many cosmic events occur in space and sometimes surprise astronomers. This is the case of these scientists who…
New image captures spooky bat signal in the sky
Press Release 31 October 2025 A spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s)…