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A New Look at the Helix Nebula — a Giant “Eye” in Space
[/caption] Who is looking at who here? A brand new image of the Helix Nebula (breathlessly called the “Eye of…
Microlensing Study Says Every Star in the Milky Way has Planets
[/caption] How common are planets in the Milky Way? A new study using gravitational microlensing suggests that every star in…
Nebula of Many Names Revealed in Beautiful New Image
[/caption] The Omega Nebula goes by many names, depending on who observed it when and what they thought they saw.…
Timelapse: Cerro Paranal Skies Above the VLT
This is one of the best timelapse videos of the year, showing ESO's Very Large Telescope in action and the…
Staking Out A Vampire Star
[/caption] How do you peer into the dark heart of a vampire star? Try combining four telescopes! At ESO’s Paranal…
Incredible Spinning Star Rotates At A Million Miles Per Hour!
[/caption] Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a star named VFTS 102 is spinning its heart out... Literally. Rotating at…
The Way Cool Clouds Of The Carina Nebula
[/caption] It's beautiful.... But it's cold. By utilizing the submillimetre-wavelength of light, the 12 meter APEX telescope has imaged the…
Antique Stars Could Help Solve Mysteries Of Early Milky Way
[/caption] Utilizing ESO's giant telescopes located in Chile, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have been examining "antique" stars. Located…
Asteroid Lutetia… A Piece Of Earth?
[/caption] According to data received from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, ESO’s New Technology Telescope, and NASA telescopes, strange asteroid Lutetia could…
Are Pluto and Eris Twins?
[/caption] Back a couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article highlighting the debate between scientists on which dwarf planet…