10 May 2017
Australia announce a strategic partnership with ESO
... to open negotiations with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on a strategic partnership that would see Australia participate...the partnership has yet to receive the approval of the ESO Council, such a collaboration raises the possibility of many...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
...University of Portsmouth, UK. Fortunately, the huge mass of ESO 325-G004 also has other benefits. The galaxy’s massive... is being distorted by the intervening mass; in this case by ESO 325-G004. The bending of light by a gravitational body was ...
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... detected using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) but due to the swift action of the astronomers...the star was ripped apart,” says study author Thomas Wevers, an ESO Fellow in Santiago, Chile, who was at the Institute of Astronomy...
03 November 2016
MUSE instrument produces spectacular new images of the Carina Nebula
... team led by Anna McLeod, PhD student at ESO, has observed incredible new images of pillar-like...and the pillars themselves. Regions R45 and R37 in the Carina Nebula. Credit: ESO/A. McLeod When a massive star is first formed, it destroys the cloud from...
27 March 2019
Storm-plagued exoplanet revealed in detail with GRAVITY
...instrument is GRAVITY and it was born from the desire to observe very small details on faint objects. It sits on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) and represents a huge step forward in observing objects in visible light. Interferometry...
06 May 2020
Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth
...its two companion stars using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. They ...large distance from this inner pair. Dietrich Baade, Emeritus Astronomer at ESO in Garching and co-author of the study, says: “The observations...
