Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

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 ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for ...

The Sh2-284 nebula has been imaged VLT Survey Telescope. The "region of dust and gas that’s teeming with young stars, located some 15 000 light-years away from Earth," according to the European ...

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 ...

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 ...