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Black Holes Were Already Feasting Just 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang
Using the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers observed gas clouds that in the early Universe…
Asteroid 2006 QV89 Now Has a 0% Chance of Hitting Earth in September
Why report on an asteroid that has no chance of hitting Earth? Because this asteroid, known as 2006 QV89, has…
A double asteroid came uncomfortably close this weekend. Here’s what astronomers saw
Using the Very Large Telescope, a team of ESO scientists took some stunningly clear images of a double asteroid that…
Ground-Based Telescope Directly Observes the Atmosphere of an Extrasolar Planet, and Sees Swirling Clouds of Iron and Silicates
We've finally got our first optical look at an exoplanet and its atmosphere, and boy is it a strange place.…
Do You See the “Cosmic Bat” in NGC 1788?
2,000 light years away, in the Orion constellation, lurks an eerie looking creature, made of glowing gas lit up by…
The Saturn Nebula Kind of Looks Like the Planet in a Small Telescope, But in One of the Most Powerful Telescopes on Earth, it Looks Like This
Saturn is an icon. There's nothing else like it in the Solar System, and it's something even children recognize. But…
Massive Triple Star System Creates this Bizarre Swirling Pinwheel of Dust. And it Could be the Site of a Gamma Ray Burst
An international team of astronomers recently located a triple star system in our galaxy that will someday unleash a massive…
Super Earth Planet Found Around One of the Closest Stars to us. But it’s Probably a Terrible Place to Live
The Red Dots and CARMENES projects recently announced the discovery of a super-Earth around Barnard's Star, making it the second-closest…
Direct Observations of a Planet Orbiting a Star 63 Light-Years Away
Using the Very Large Telescope, a team of ESO astronomers directly observed Beta Pictoris b over the course of four…
Astronomers Get as Close as They Can to Seeing the Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
Thanks to the GRAVITY collaboration, astronomers have made the most detailed observations of the black hole at the center of…