Ever wonder what takes place on a daily basis at one of the premier ground-based observatories? The European Southern Observatory…
The head and "eye" of the Seagull Nebula (ESO) This colorful new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory highlights the…
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m. Zoom by John Williams/TerraZoom using Zoomify When NASA combines images from different…
Zoom into the Pipe Nebula by using the zoom slider, or pan around the image by using the arrow icons…
This beautiful spiral galaxy looks peaceful, with its swirling white and blue arms appearing like they could be home to…
Caption: Artist’s impression of the quasar 3C 279. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser From an ESO press release: An international team of…
Glowing red against a backdrop of stars, amateur astronomers have remastered one of the sky's most distinctive nebulae, the Cat's…
An international team of astronomers has figured out a way to determine details of an exoplanet's atmosphere from 50 light-years…
Scientists have determined a giant gas cloud is on a collision course with the black hole in the center of…
[/caption] The world’s largest optical/infrared telescope has been given the initial go-ahead to be built. Called the European Extremely Large…