06 May 2020
Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth
...team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has ...object by tracking its two companion stars using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. They say this system could just be...
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... AT2019qiz was initially detected using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) but due to the swift action of the... star was ripped apart,” says study author Thomas Wevers, an ESO Fellow in Santiago, Chile, who was at the Institute of ...
10 May 2017
Australia announce a strategic partnership with ESO
... recent budget announcement, the Australian government voiced its intentions to open negotiations with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on a strategic partnership that would see Australia participate in all activities related to the La Silla...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
...SOFIA are shown as streamlines over a composite image of Centaurus A taken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), Chandra X-Ray observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope. The observed differences between both...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
...the 3He problem. About the author Dr Lizette Guzman-Ramirez is a post-doctoral researcher in astrophysics, a European Southern Observatory (ESO) Fellow at Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands and a member of the ALMA Arc node (Allegro). Her research...
