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Coming Soon: World’s Largest Optical Telescope
[/caption] The world’s largest optical/infrared telescope has been given the initial go-ahead to be built. Called the European Extremely Large…
How Do The Biggest Telescopes Work?
[/caption] Located high in the mountains of Chile's Atacama Desert, the enormous telescopes of the European Southern Observatory have been…
Where All The Hottest Stars Gather
[/caption] An ESO telescope captures a group of hot young stars that would outshine any Hollywood party! At the upper…
The Case of the Missing Dark Matter
[/caption] A survey of the galactic region around our solar system by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has turned up…
Billions of Habitable Worlds Likely in the Milky Way
[/caption] Could there be ‘tens of billions’ of habitable worlds in our own galaxy? That’s the results from a new…
VISTA View Is Chock Full Of Galaxies
[/caption] See all those tiny points of light in this image? Most of them aren't stars; they're entire galaxies, seen…
Erasure and VLT Team Up for ESO’s 50th Anniversary
[/caption] British synthpop band Erasure released a video today featuring lead singer Andy Bell in front of the telescopes of…
Is There Life on Earth?
[/caption] It may seem like a silly question -- of course there's life on Earth -- but what if we…
Life in the Universe, Reflected by the Moon
[/caption] Earthshine – a poetic, fanciful word for the soft, faint glow on the Moon when the light from the…
‘Dark Markings of the Sky’ are Hiding Star Formation
[/caption] This stunning new image shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. The makeup of…