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ALMA Takes Close Look at Drama of Starbirth 20 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have obtained a vivid close-up view of material streaming away from a newborn star. By looking at the glow coming from carbon ...
The Odd Couple 7 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has captured an intriguing star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud — one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies. This sharp image reveals two distinctive glowing cl...
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Fried Egg Nebula cosmosfirma.blogspot.com 28 Sep 2011 | 10:00 pm
Does the universe want bacon with that? Fried Egg Nebula An international team of astronomers recently used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile to capture a unique pict...
'Super telescope' waiting for technical fix dostbasa.blogspot.com 2 Dec 2010 | 08:43 am
(CNN) -- When the Southern African Large Telescope -- or "Salt" -- opens its shutter it offers astronomers a view far beyond its location in the vastness of South Africa's semi desert, known as the Ka...
Choose What the VLT Observes & Tweet Your Way to the VLT! vt2012.org 8 Aug 2012 | 11:00 pm
ESO builds and operates some of the most advanced telescopes on Earth including the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory. These huge machines have made many fascinating discoveries ab...
A Blue Whirlpool in The River vt2012.org 1 Aug 2012 | 06:00 pm
A new image taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the galaxy NGC 1187. This impressive spiral lies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus (The River). NGC 1187 has ho...
The Brightest Stars Don't Live Alone vt2012.org 27 Jul 2012 | 02:00 am
A new study using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has shown that most very bright high-mass stars, which drive the evolution of galaxies, do not live alone. Almost three quarters of these stars are f...
Laser Guide Star Sweeps Across a Starry Sky wwffm.com 21 Aug 2012 | 12:42 am
A powerful laser beam from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) paints the night sky over the Chilean Atacama Desert in this stunning image taken by Julien Girard. The Earth’s rotation during the 30-minut...
Galaxy-wide echoes from the past astronomyreport.com 12 Dec 2012 | 12:00 pm
A new galaxy class has been identified using observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope, the Gemini South telescope, and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Nicknamed 'green bean galaxies' because o...
Hawaiian Summit to Gain Giant Telescope weirdwarp.com 16 Apr 2013 | 10:01 pm
The construction of a large telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea which is opposed by the Hawaiians has information now to go ahead. This has been opposed because the Hawaiians consider it sacred groun...
L'enfance tumultueuse des amas globulaires iap.fr 16 Apr 2013 | 09:00 pm
On pensait les amas globulaires constitués d'une seule génération d'étoiles présentant une composition chimique homogène. Mais des observations récentes, réalisées au moyen du Very Large Telescope de ...
¿Es este el exoplaneta más ligero captado hasta el momento? cienciakanija.com 3 Jun 2013 | 11:08 pm
Artículo publicado el 3 de junio de 2013 en ESO Utilizando el telescopio VLT (Very Large Telescope) de ESO, un grupo de astrónomos ha obtenido una imagen de un objeto muy débil que se mueve cerca de u...
