European Southern Observatory

Dark cloud obscures hundreds of background stars

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has decided to build a massive space telescope on top of Cerro Armazones in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. This will be the largest telescope on the planet, sporting a 39 meter wide mirror that will capturing both visible and infrared wavelengths of light.

The elliptical galaxy Centaurus A is seen in this deep-view image captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) using an exposure time of over 50 hours.

The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has snapped this new picture of Messier 55, which contains some of our universe’s oldest stars.

This mosaic image of the bright starforming region, 30 Doradus, has been released to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

This new picture of the sky contains over 200,000 galaxies as seen by the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VISTA telescope situated in the Chilean Andes.

Growing galaxies switched from guzzling gas to consuming smaller galaxies about 3 to 5 billion years after the alleged big bang, according to new data.

A new view of NGC 253, the Sculptor Galaxy, has been snapped by the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) new VLT Survey Telescope (VST), located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.