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WEBAug 27, 2024 — Now, using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, researchers have found a unique signature of this process for the first time — a scar imprinted on the surface of a white dwarf star. The results are published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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WEBSep 25, 2024 — Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus, a year lasts just over three Earth days.
Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our ...
WEBMay 12, 2022 — Today, at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany, astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black …
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WEB4 days ago — The Extremely Large Telescope: The World's Biggest Eye On The Sky.
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WEBESO, the European Southern Observatory, is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world's most productive astronomical observatory. ESO provides state-of-the-art research facilities.
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WEBESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT for short, is a revolutionary ground-based telescope that will have a 39-metre main mirror and will be the largest visible and infrared light telescope in the world: the world’s biggest eye on the sky.
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WEBMain Structure. The giant ELT dome will house the telescope and its interior structure, providing protection from the extreme environment of Chile’s Atacama Desert. The main structure of the telescope will hold its five mirrors and optics, including the enormous 39-metre primary mirror.
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WEBTestbed Asteroid Hunter Sees First Light (ESOcast 237 Light) ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere.
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WEBESO’s VLT reveals the Carina Nebula's hidden secrets. VST image of the giant globular cluster Omega Centauri*. The Orion Nebula and cluster from the VLT Survey Telescope. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array …
New type of star gives clues to mysterious origin of magnetars
WEBAug 17, 2023 — Now, using multiple telescopes around the world, including European Southern Observatory (ESO) facilities, researchers have uncovered a living star that is likely to become a magnetar. This finding marks the discovery of a new type of astronomical object — massive magnetic helium stars — and sheds light on the origin of magnetars.