Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones ...

The frame of the dome that will house the world's largest telescope has been completed, marking another key milestone in the observatory's construction. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

"The question 'Are we alone?' is one of the most significant questions, not just in the history of science, but in the history of humanity." ...

In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas are spiralling around the super massive black hole and getting pulled in ...

Four bright lasers, the most powerful ever put on a telescope, fire into the night sky to create an artificial guide star for the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at the ...

A new study has unveiled new insights into the effects of massive stars on nearby molecular gas and star formation in the W4 super-large HII region.

However, the resolution of the original image is very large, at 42208 x 9870 pixels (748.98 MB). The first panoramic photographs of the Andromeda Galaxy using the Hubble Space Telescope began with ...

Astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black hole in the infrared, using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer. Active galactic ...