Astronomers Capture Two Giant Planets Forming Around Young Star WISPIT 2
Astronomers have caught two giant planets forming around WISPIT 2, an infant star just 5.4 million years old,…
Astronomers Find Second-Generation Star in Pictor II
PicII-503, a primordial star located in the >10-billion-year-old ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Pictor II, appears to preserve the chemical…
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…
New look at the stars around the Milky Way's centre – ESO.org
New look at the stars around the Milky Way’s centre ESO.orgAstronomers Produce the Largest Image Ever Taken of the…
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…
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…
Laser trial run kickstarts new era of interferometry | Chasing Starlight – Eso.org
Laser trial run kickstarts new era of interferometry | Chasing Starlight Eso.orgLaser trial at ESO kickstarts new era of…
VST Spots ‘Cosmic Bat’ in Southern Sky
Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope have captured a beautiful image of a large nebula, whose mesmerizing appearance…