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Omega Centauri: Globes of the southern sky.
Omega Centauri is one of the most beautiful pearls in the southern hemisphere sky, perfectly illustrated in the latest ESO photo.
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Nursery star glowing
An image of the APEX telescope reveals how an ionized gas bubble causes surrounding materials to turn into dense blocks, thereby forming new stars.
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The deepest universe picture
This stunning image, with countless colorful galaxies, represents the Chandra Deep Field South area (CDF-S), the most observed and studied airspace in the universe.
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Shining spiral galaxies in the universe
ESO's Wide Field Imager has just captured a confusing picture of spiral galaxy Messier 83 - the galaxy looks a lot like our Milky Way but smaller.
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Molecular thermometer for distant universe
Astronomers using the giant telescope the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of Eso have for the first time discovered in carbon monoxide molecular ultraviolet radiation in a ga…
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VISTA: ESO's future telescope
It is expected that this new type of European telescope of the Southern Hemisphere Astronomical Research (ESO) will be used in early 2009.
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An old star near the universe
By using a special process, astronomers from the European Astronomical Research Organization in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) have identified a star in our Milky Way tha…
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The first three black holes appear in the universe
The Southern European Hemisphere Research Organization (ESO) says it has discovered three surprisingly large black holes near each other and forms a large mass of celest…
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Close up of the world's largest telescope
The Southern European Observatory (ESO) has just released a number of photos of ALMA, the world's largest radio telescope.
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Travel to the 'star nursery' 160,000 light-years from Earth
Scientists use telescope images in Chile to reconstruct a trip to discover the Tarantula nebula, where many new stars form.
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The newly created planet was photographed for the first time
Astronomers first photographed the newly created planet from the disk of dust and gas surrounding the star about 370 light-years from Earth.
Science Events
Coming to the press conference announcing the discovery of the
The European Space Research Organization in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) is about to announce the discovery of the new planet
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Turn on 'green light' for the world's largest telescope project
The 1 billion euro European European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) construction project has been turned on to 'green lights' to be operational in the early decade. A…
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Chile started construction of the world's largest telescope
On June 19, the world's largest telescope construction project (E-ELT) in Chile was officially started after years of delay.