ESO

Antique Stars Could Help Solve Mysteries Of Early Milky Way

[/caption] Utilizing ESO's giant telescopes located in Chile, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have been examining "antique" stars. Located…

13 years ago

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