At the Paranal Observatory in Chile, the UT4 telescope doesn’t just observe the stars—it actively creates artificial stars to ...

The brilliant blue-white star lighting up the red nebula Sh2-46 hints at a dynamic and possibly fleeting encounter that could ...

The image, taken by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, captures an emission nebula — a bright cloud of ionized gas that ...

An exciting first in planetary discoveries!

En ny upptäckt överraskar astronomer – en planet som kretsar kring två stjärnor, likt en känd planet i ”Star Wars”.

A hypothetical office overlooking the Paranal Observatory in Chile, with the European Southern Observatory’s VLT visible with its laser on the hill, and the four small SPECULOOS telescopes ...

At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, visitors can experience some of the darkest and clearest night skies ...

– Det är svårt att inte tänka på Tatooine när du har planeter som kretsar kring två solar, säger Amaury Triaud, som är ...

instrument on the VLT at Paranal Observatory, Chile. The astronomers observed the orbital path of the two stars in 2M1510 being pushed and pulled in unusual ways, leading them to infer the ...

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada But what orbits them? Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, researchers in the United Kingdom and Portugal found that both brown dwarfs orbit in opposition to ...

Chile hosts some of the world's most advanced observatories, such as the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the future Extremely Large ...