The #EuropeanSouthernObservatory's #VeryLargeTelescope recently captured an image of an object known as #Ve7–27. Thanks to observations from the MUSE instrument, the image shows that Ve 7–27 is actually a still-forming #babystar
Read more here: space-com.visitlink.me/O9KACl

A multicolored plume flowing to the top right from an unseen dead star. Bold white text says 'Strange shock wave around dead star surprises astronomers'

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s #VeryLargeTelescope have imaged a beautiful #shockwave around a dead star, a #whitedwarf named RXJ0528+2838 … and they can’t quite explain it. 🌟👀🔭
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📸 ESO/ K. Ilkiewicz and S. Scaringi et al./ PanSTARRS.

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🌌🔭 A cosmic spectacle! ESO’s Very Large Telescope spotted a protoplanet carving stunning spiral patterns in the disc of star HD 135344B, offering a rare glimpse into planet formation. A first in real-time observation!

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Protoplanet #SpaceDiscovery #VeryLargeTelescope […]

Osservato un pianeta in formazione mentre scolpisce il disco attorno a una giovane stella Gli astronomi, grazie al VLT dell’ESO, hanno osservato per la prima volta un possibile pianeta in formazione annidato in una spirale di g...

Utilizzando lo strumento #ERIS installato sul #VeryLargeTelescope, un team di ricerca a guida italiana ha osservato per la prima volta un possibile pianeta in formazione, che sta scolpendo il disco di gas e polveri attorno alla sua stella in una struttura a spirale.
www.astrospace.it/2025/07/21/o...

A star with expanding shells of gases, the inner one blue and the other one orange.

2 explosions destroyed this #star! Using the #VeryLargeTelescope, astronomers found patterns that confirm the star suffered a pair of explosive blasts. 🌌💥🔭
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And join us live at 12:15 p.m. CDT (17:15 UTC) today: buff.ly/tHgEy4x

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Ottenuta la mappa spettrale più dettagliata mai realizzata di una galassia Un team internazionale, usando oltre 50 ore di osservazione con MUSE sul VLT dell’ESO, ha realizzato la mappa spettrale più dettagliata fi...

Utilizzando lo strumento MUSE installato sul #VeryLargeTelescope, è stata ottenuta la mappa spettrale più dettagliata mai realizzata finora della #galassia dello Scultore, osservata in migliaia di diverse combinazioni cromatiche che ne raccontano le caratteristiche.
www.astrospace.it/2025/06/18/o...

A stunning night-time photograph of the Milky Way Galaxy with a powerful laser beam emanating from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. The laser creates an artificial star to measure atmospheric distortions, enabling sharper astronomical observations of the galactic center. The image shows the VLT buildings against a backdrop of countless stars and the Milky Way's luminous band.

Astronomy Picture from 31/07/2007

A Laser Strike at the Galactic Center

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070731.html


#VLT #AdaptiveOptics #LaserGuideStar #MilkyWay #Astronomy #Chile #VeryLargeTelescope #GalacticCenter #Stargazing #Space #Science #Cosmology #OpticalTelescope

"Big surprise": astronomers find planet in perpendicular orbit around pair of stars Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these ‘polar planets’ orbiting a s...

Nature's variety never fails to surprise us. Astronomers using the #ESO #VeryLargeTelescope have found a planet in a perpendicular orbit around 2 failed stars (brown dwarfs) that orbit each other: www.eso.org/public/news/...

#astronomy #astroedu #space #sciencenews #astronomynews #exoplanets #sci

A powerful laser beam shoots upward from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, towards the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The laser creates an artificial star to help correct for atmospheric distortion, improving the quality of astronomical observations. The Milky Way stretches across the night sky, a breathtaking backdrop to this advanced astronomical technology.

Astronomy Picture from 06/09/2010

A Laser Strike at the Galactic Center

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100906.html


#VLT #AdaptiveOptics #LaserGuideStar #MilkyWay #Astronomy #Chile #GalacticCenter #Stargazing #SpaceScience #OpticalTelescope #ESO #VeryLargeTelescope

Energy Facility Could Spoil Observatory’s View of the Night Sky A proposed green hydrogen production facility in Chile’s Atacama Desert may significantly impact one of the world’s most important astronomical observatories, a new study has found. [Read More]

Those are some strong winds, clocking in at over 20,000 mph on exoplanet WASP-127b, the fastest known on any planet. . . so far! 🌪️

#VLT #verylargetelescope #WASP127b #exoplanets #eso

World's largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project "These two things cannot be in the same place. It's as simple as that."

The world's darkest night sky threatened by an industrial project, and with it, the future of some of the world's most powerful telescopes is also at risk. Astronomy versus civilisation. @eso.org #lightpollution #verylargetelescope #atacama

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Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy “For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” says Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile...

#Astronomy: #ESO's #VeryLargeTelescope Interferometer has imaged a dying star roughly 2000 times larger than our Sun and is puffing out gas and dust, in the last stages before it becomes a supernova. It is located in the #LargeMagellanicCloud.

📷 ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.

www.eso.org/public/news/...

Fremde Welten: Exoplanet umkreist nahen Stern Auch der nächst gelegene Einzelstern besitzt mindestens einen Planeten

#Exoplanet 🔭
umkreist nahen Stern
#Barnards-Stern ist mit 6 #Lichtjahren
der uns nächst gelegene Einzelstern. Mit dem #VeryLargeTelescope wurde dort ein
Exoplanet mit etwa der halben
#Venusmasse entdeckt

Symbolbild Teleskope Südsternwarte Bild Rivi~commonswiki CC3.0

1998
Chile und eine EuEuropa Südsternwarte

25.Mai ging ein Teleskop an den Start
#VeryLargeTelescope
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