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Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO, also more formally the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere) is an intergovernmental research organisation for ...
With a remarkable observational campaign that involved 12 telescopes both on the ground and in space, including three European Southern Observatory (ESO) facilities, astronomers have uncovered the ...
Cerro Paranal, already home to the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) --- a half-billion dollar optically-linked masterwork, first set the astronomical world on its ...
Today, 5 October 2012, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is celebrating 50 years since the signing of its founding convention. Over the last half century ESO has become the world’s most ...
The Federative Republic of Brazil is set to become thenewest member state of the European Southern Observatory, a leading intergovernmentalastronomy organization. In a ceremony held in Brasilia ...
An international team of astronomers has used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) to carefully study the star VFTS 682 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ...
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has closed several of its facilities and canceled public events in Germany and Chile in response to the coronavirus outbreak. There have not been any ...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star WD 0816-310. Credit: ESO ...