The remarkable detail reveals the individual astronomical objects that make up the celestial bird, as well as the finer features within them
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Two young exoplanets have been seen clearing a path through its protoplanetary disk
The two exoplanets in the PDS 70 system are sweeping up material as they go to sizes up to 17 times that of Jupiter
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Astronomers spot a distant galactic fountain
The continuous outflow and inflow of molecular gas in the galaxy cluster Abell 2597 has never been seen before
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Astronomers unearth a cosmic titan from the early Universe
Hyperion, the largest galaxy proto-supercluster, has a mass more than one million billion times the Sun
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Astronomers observe the diffuse glow of the Universe
The Lyman-alpha emission from dim clouds of hydrogen in space has offered a new and interesting view of the Universe
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Why can’t we continually see Venus?
It’s our next door neighbour, so why can’t we see it every night?
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Astronomers detect the most distant oxygen ever discovered
This oxygen detection provides strong evidence that star formation occurred just 250 million years after the Big Bang
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Structure of Saturn Nebula more complex than initially thought
Astronomers have observed the ‘star death’ in finer detail then ever before
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Titanium discovered in exoplanet’s atmosphere
The discovery of metallic oxides in the planet’s atmosphere has changed how we’ll examine alien worlds in the future
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Astronomers get best image yet of red supergiant’s surface and atmosphere
Captured by the Very Large Telescope, astronomers have unveiled new information about Antares in the constellation of Scorpius
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Supermassive black holes thrive in ‘jellyfish’ galaxies
Astronomers have unearthed a new process for how a galaxy feeds the supermassive black hole at its core
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Very Large Telescope captures dazzling heart of active galaxy
The European Southern Observatory instrument has caught a remarkable image of Messier 77
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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
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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
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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
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Chemicals on comets provide clearer snapshot of a young Solar System
These primordial bodies contain material largely unchanged from the birth of the Solar System some 4.6 billion years ago
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Space telescope captures expanding debris from stellar explosion
Combining observations, astronomers have been able to learn new things about Tycho’s supernova remnant and the explosion that made it
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Hottest and most massive double star found by ground-based telescope
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a binary star with two extreme components has been discovered
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Why do some telescopes make artificial stars?
When the European Southern Observatory needs a star, it just creates its own