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

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

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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; ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

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 ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

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

The discovery, based on data collected by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), helps us understand how stars survive in environments with extreme gravity ...

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 discovery, based on data collected by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), helps us understand how stars survive in environments with extreme gravity ...