ESO

Asteroid Lutetia… A Piece Of Earth?

[/caption] According to data received from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, ESO’s New Technology Telescope, and NASA telescopes, strange asteroid Lutetia could…

13 years ago

Are Pluto and Eris Twins?

[/caption] Back a couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article highlighting the debate between scientists on which dwarf planet…

13 years ago

Two New Globular Star Clusters Discovered By VISTA

[/caption] Where there once was 158, there is now more... Globular clusters, that is. Thanks to ESO’s VISTA survey telescope…

13 years ago

Early Galaxies – Clearing The “Cosmic Fog”

[/caption] The seasons are changing for both hemispheres and it's not uncommon to wake up to wonderful, mysterious swirls of…

13 years ago

Sunny Side Up: New Image of the Fried Egg Nebula Reveals a Rare Yellow Hypergiant Star

[/caption] A new look at the Fried Egg Nebula has revealed one of the rarest classes of stars in the…

13 years ago

Can You Spot the Running Chicken in this Nebula?

[/caption] A brand new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope reveals the Lambda Centauri Nebula,…

13 years ago

Colorful Cluster of Stars Competes with the Tarantula Nebula

[/caption] Who can shine the brightest in the Large Magellanic Cloud? A brilliant cluster of stars, open cluster NGC 2100…

13 years ago

Astrophoto: Laser Lightning!

[/caption] Yikes! This science-fiction-like scene was captured by Martin Kornmesser, a visual artist for the European Southern Observatory. Just as…

13 years ago

Looking Into a Pair of Cosmic Eyes

[/caption] Have you ever looked through your telescope and felt like you were being watched? These two galaxies in the…

13 years ago

New VLT Survey Telescope Opens Wide Eyes to the Universe

[/caption] There's a new telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile and what big eyes it has! The VLT Survey…

13 years ago