On January 7, 2025, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole at its core,” according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit; ...

This incredible image, taken for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) by Alberto Ghizzi Panizza is taken from Pukará de ...

A new image from the Very Large Telescope captures a cosmic cloud referred to as the Running Chicken Nebula, given its bright ...

New research from a team of citizen scientists challenges the old idea that Jupiter's visible clouds are formed of ammonia ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones ...

The discovery, which relied on data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, marks the first time that a binary star system has been observed in the vicinity of a ...

It dwarfs the previous attempt by the same team, published in 2012, which also used the VISTA survey telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The array is located less than 10 km southeast of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) existing Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. © CTAO The European Commission today established the ...

The figure is down to almost zero for the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, or the VLT, located at an altitude of 2,600 meters on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert.