All Entries Tagged With: "ESO"
Gallery: The Omega Nebula
One of the Milky Way’s youngest and most active stellar nurseries for massive stars.
World’s biggest telescope a step closer
Work to commence on European Extremely Large Telescope site in Chile.
“Vampire star” devouring its companion
Best-ever images of a binary system with one star cannibalising the other.
Fried Egg nebula home to hypergiant
Rare class of ‘yellow hypergiant’ star lives at the centre of this weird nebula.
Over 50 new planets discovered
Record planet-haul turns up dozens of new exoplanets, including 16 ‘super-Earths’.
Galaxy gazing with The Eyes
Odd couple of the galaxy world shows signs of damage from close encounters.
High and dry – Astronomy in the Atacama
World’s largest observatory complex is located in the remote Chilean desert. This video explains why…
Gallery: A fluffy galaxy
NGC 3521 has patchy spiral arms, making it good example of a ‘flocculent’ galaxy.
Hidden star groups uncovered
Telescope uncovers almost 100 star clusters hidden behind dust in the Milky Way.
A nebula to dye for!
Hydrogen peroxide—used on Earth to dye hair blonde—has been found in deep space
