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Solar System

Astronomers keep a watchful eye on a double asteroid as it passed Earth

Although the asteroid did not pose a serious threat, it was used as an important training exercise for the future

Deep Space

Black hole’s flaring hot spots prove decade-old theory

The recent detection of flares circling the heavy-weight objects has revealed how they grow and consume matter

Deep Space

Einstein’s theory successfully tested near supermassive black hole

This result is the culmination of 26 years of observations made by the Very Large Telescope in Chile

Solar System

Very Large Telescope uses new optics to gather strikingly sharp images

ESO commemorate the newly installed adaptive optics on the Very Large Telescope by imaging celestial objects in remarkable detail

Astronomy

Astronomers capture a vibrant array of celestial colours

During a test of the HAWK-I camera, the Very Large Telescope captured this amazing image of a young generation of stars blossoming with colour

Deep Space

A planet being born has been directly imaged for the first time ever

This young planet is shaping its host primordial disk and its atmosphere appears to be cloudy

Astronomy

Protoplanetary discs finally seen in unrivalled detail

Courtesy of a Very Large Telescope instrument, there has now been an influx of fantastic images unmasking the dusty discs that surround young stars

News

Very Large Telescope to begin hunt for worlds around Alpha Centauri

ESO has signed an agreement to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation in Chile to conduct a search for planets in the nearby star system

News

Super Earth-based telescope gets first views of ‘pillars of destruction’

New observations of structures within the Carina Nebula have been made using ESO’s Very Large Telescope

News

Astronomers discover galaxy’s ‘cosmic gas barcode’ eight billion light years away

Researchers have confirmed that electromagnetism in a distant galaxy has the same strength as here on Earth

News

Large telescope captures baby planets sculpting dusty discs

Sharp new observations have revealed striking features in planet-forming regions around young stars

News

Astronomers find planet with triple sunrises and sunsets

The exoplanet HD 131399Ab is unlike any other known world

News

Baby ‘flickering’ stars provide link to how hungry black holes feed

A previously unknown link between the way young stellar objects grow and the way black holes feast on their surroundings has been discovered

News

Mysterious ripples found in planet-forming disc around nearby star

Moving features within the dusty disc surrounding young star AU Microscopii have been discovered

Deep Space

New image release: astronomers capture dragon’s life and death

An unfamiliar region of one of our closest neighbours – the Large Magellanic Cloud – has been imaged for the very first time.

News

Very Large Telescope sees signs of planet birth in action

Could the disc of gas and dust surrounding a star 335 light years away be the construction yard for a planet?

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