New Technique used to spot nearby Exoplanets
Breakthrough technique used to directly depiction nearby exoplanets in habitable-zone.
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A Very Large eye exam
Surrounded by the gleaming metal of one of ESO’s Very Large Telescope’s (VLT) Unit Telescopes, two engineers are carrying out maintenance work on the telescope’s complex and delicate
Trapped by Lasers
Τurbulence in Earth’s atmosphere causes stars to twinkle, blurring our view of the night sky. These four laser beams are specially designed to combat this turbulence.
Best ever Star’s Image
Astronomers captured the best ever image of a star’s surface and atmosphere.
Construction begins on world’s largest Telescope
Construction begins on world’s largest optical telescope in the Atacama desert.
Strange Quantum Distortion in Empty Space observed
Astronomers observed for the first time a strange Quantum distortion in empty space.
Geminid meteor shower peaks in the next few days
Geminid meteor shower peaks in the next few days, filling your sky with shooting stars.
Our Universe is dying
Astronomers studied 200,000 galaxies to measure the rate at which our Universe is emitting energy and concluded that is dying.
Meet our new neighbours orbiting the Milky Way
Meet our new neighbours: Astronomers discovered at least nine ultra-faint satellites in the vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds. New dwarf galaxies orbiting around the Milky Way.
NGTS the new Exoplanet hunter
The Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, is the new Exoplanet hunter.