03 November 2016
MUSE instrument produces spectacular new images of the Carina Nebula
... R37 in the Carina Nebula. Credit: ESO/A. McLeod When a massive star is first...their surroundings, as they tend to blast out large quantities of ionising radiation. However, observing this... the images, they are actually very diffuse, and it is possible ...
29 November 2017
Deepest spectroscopic survey completed of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
...of research already conducted into the HUDF, with the help of MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have produced a groundbreaking dataset that has already resulted in 10 science papers which are...
25 August 2017
Most detailed image ever of a star other than our Sun
The most detailed image ever of a star other than our Sun has been constructed by astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). The star is the red supergiant Antares – the brightest star in the heart of the constellation of ...
09 August 2017
Stars orbiting Sgr A* hint at relativistic effects
..., with the help of S2 again and observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), a team of German and Czech astronomers have...and it is expected to soon reveal general relativistic effects very clearly. It will also allow astronomers to look for ...
17 October 2018
Cosmic titan found lurking in the early Universe
.... “This is the first time that such a large structure has been identified at such a high redshift,”...for the Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph this instrument attached to ESO’s Very large Telescope (VLT), records one long stripe (spectrum) for ...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
..., the theory still stands the test of time. Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – a device that looks like a machine straight out of the movie The Matrix – and the NASA...
