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Images of 42 of the Biggest Asteroids in the Solar System
A huge team of astronomers have combined forces to use the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) to…
The Galactic Beauty of Star Formation
I'd never seen galaxy images like this before. Nobody had! These images highlight star forming regions in nearby(ish) galaxies. There…
A Powerful new Laser Will Enhance Adaptive Optics
In some applications, bigger lasers mean better lasers. That is the case in astronomy, where lasers are used for everything…
The Giant Magellan Telescope’s 6th Mirror has Just Been Cast. One More to Go
Work has begun on the sixth and seventh mirror segments for the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will begin studying the…
Here’s the Extremely New Website for the Extremely Large Telescope
In the vein of “go big or go home,” the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has launched a stunning new website…
The European Extremely Large Telescope Just Got a 10% Budget Boost, Now Costing $1.5 Billion
Funding is an extremely important aspect of any large-scale science project. The whims of financial controllers can greatly expand or…
Wow! An Actual Picture of Multiple Planets Orbiting a Sunlike Star
We've detected thousands of exoplanets, but for the most part, nobody's ever seen them. They're really just data, and graphs…
Closest Black Hole Found, Just 1,000 Light-Years From Earth
Scientists with the ESO have detected a triple system with a black hole roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth - making…
A Star is Orbiting the Milky Way’s Black Hole and Moving Exactly How Einstein Predicted it Should
After almost 30 years of observing a star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy,…
Black Holes Were Already Feasting Just 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang
Using the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers observed gas clouds that in the early Universe…