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WEBJun 18, 2024 · Now, using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, researchers have found a unique signature of this process for the first time — a scar imprinted on the surface of a white dwarf star. The results are published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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WEBAug 27, 2024 · New data from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) suggest there were originally three stars in the system, until two of them clashed and merged. This violent event created the surrounding cloud and forever altered the system’s fate.
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WEB4 days ago · The Extremely Large Telescope: The World's Biggest Eye On The Sky.
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WEBESO, the European Southern Observatory, is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world's most productive astronomical observatory. ESO provides state-of-the-art research facilities.
Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our ...
WEBMay 12, 2022 · Today, at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany, astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black …
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WEBTestbed Asteroid Hunter Sees First Light (ESOcast 237 Light) ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere.
Brightest and fastest-growing: astronomers identify record …
WEBFeb 19, 2024 · Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterised a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed.
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WEBMay 2, 2019 · The European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is a revolutionary scientific project for a 40m-class telescope that will allow us to address many of the most pressing unsolved questions about our Universe.
New type of star gives clues to mysterious origin of magnetars
WEBAug 17, 2023 · Now, using multiple telescopes around the world, including European Southern Observatory (ESO) facilities, researchers have uncovered a living star that is likely to become a magnetar. This finding marks the discovery of a new type of astronomical object — massive magnetic helium stars — and sheds light on the origin of magnetars.
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WEBESO’s VLT reveals the Carina Nebula's hidden secrets. VST image of the giant globular cluster Omega Centauri*. The Orion Nebula and cluster from the VLT Survey Telescope. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array …