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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>ESO Top News</title><link>https://www.eso.org/public/news/</link><description>Top News from ESO</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0100</lastBuildDate><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/EsoTopNews" /><feedburner:info uri="esotopnews" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><title>Puzzling six-exoplanet system with rhythmic movement challenges theories of how planets form</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~3/81bReCLUQvg/</link><description>Using a combination of telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed a system consisting of six exoplanets, five of which are locked in a rare rhythm around their central star. The researchers believe the system could provide important clues about how planets, including those in the Solar System, form and evolve.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~4/81bReCLUQvg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2102/</guid><enclosure url="https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2102a.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2102/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>ALMA captures distant colliding galaxy dying out as it loses the ability to form stars</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~3/T0ryej0rUXA/</link><description>Galaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a far-away galaxy. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, astronomers have seen a galaxy ejecting nearly half of its star-forming gas. This ejection is happening at a startling rate, equivalent to 10 000 Suns-worth of gas a year — the galaxy is rapidly losing its fuel to make new stars. The team believes that this spectacular event was triggered by a collision with another galaxy, which could lead astronomers to rethink how galaxies stop bringing new stars to life.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~4/T0ryej0rUXA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2101/</guid><enclosure url="https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2101a.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2101/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Stars and Skulls: new ESO image reveals eerie nebula</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~3/0cecP0zqEN0/</link><description>This ethereal remnant of a long dead star, nestled in the belly of The Whale, bears an uneasy resemblance to a skull floating through space. Captured in astounding detail by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the eerie Skull Nebula is showcased in this new image in beautiful bloodshot colours. This planetary nebula is the first known to be associated with a pair of closely bound stars orbited by a third outer star.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~4/0cecP0zqEN0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2019/</guid><enclosure url="https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2019a.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2019/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Death by Spaghettification: ESO Telescopes Record Last Moments of Star Devoured by a Black Hole</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~3/OK__ubCOd_g/</link><description>Using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other organisations around the world, astronomers have spotted a rare blast of light from a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. The phenomenon, known as a tidal disruption event, is the closest such flare recorded to date at just over 215 million light-years from Earth, and has been studied in unprecedented detail. The research is published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~4/OK__ubCOd_g" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2018/</guid><enclosure url="https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2018a.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2018/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>2020 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for research with ESO telescopes on Milky Way's supermassive black hole</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~3/ULaeS_5TgoQ/</link><description>Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have jointly been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, at the centre of our galaxy. Genzel, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, and his team have conducted observations of Sagittarius A* for nearly 30 years using a fleet of instruments on European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~4/ULaeS_5TgoQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2017/</guid><enclosure url="https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso0846a.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2017/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>ESO telescope spots galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~3/ecfKtJ-HGWo/</link><description>With the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a supermassive black hole when the Universe was less than a billion years old. This is the first time such a close grouping has been seen so soon after the Big Bang and the finding helps us better understand how supermassive black holes, one of which exists at the centre of our Milky Way, formed and grew to their enormous sizes so quickly. It supports the theory that black holes can grow rapidly within large, web-like structures which contain plenty of gas to fuel them.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~4/ecfKtJ-HGWo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2016/</guid><enclosure url="https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2016a.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2016/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Possible Marker of Life Spotted on Venus</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~3/sAUwoyXFEgg/</link><description>An international team of astronomers today announced the discovery of a rare molecule — phosphine — in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially or by microbes that thrive in oxygen-free environments. Astronomers have speculated for decades that high clouds on Venus could offer a home for microbes — floating free of the scorching surface but needing to tolerate very high acidity. The detection of phosphine could point to such extra-terrestrial “aerial” life.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~4/sAUwoyXFEgg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2015/</guid><enclosure url="https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2015a.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2015/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New Observations Show Planet-forming Disc Torn Apart by its Three Central Stars</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~3/GShPkFc9v_A/</link><description>A team of astronomers have identified the first direct evidence that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming disc, leaving it warped and with tilted rings. This new research suggests exotic planets, not unlike Tatooine in Star Wars, may form in inclined rings in bent discs around multiple stars. The results were made possible thanks to observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~4/GShPkFc9v_A" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2014/</guid><enclosure url="https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2014a.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2014/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>ALMA sees most distant Milky Way look-alike</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~3/TEl3PnQZPjI/</link><description>Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, have revealed an extremely distant and therefore very young galaxy that looks surprisingly like our Milky Way. The galaxy is so far away its light has taken more than 12 billion years to reach us: we see it as it was when the Universe was just 1.4 billion years old. It is also surprisingly unchaotic, contradicting theories that all galaxies in the early Universe were turbulent and unstable. This unexpected discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies form, giving new insights into the past of our Universe.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~4/TEl3PnQZPjI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2013/</guid><enclosure url="https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2013a.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2013/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Stunning Space Butterfly Captured by ESO Telescope</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~3/Ds7S1MIIFug/</link><description>Resembling a butterfly with its symmetrical structure, beautiful colours, and intricate patterns, this striking bubble of gas — known as NGC 2899 — appears to float and flutter across the sky in this new picture from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). This object has never before been imaged in such striking detail, with even the faint outer edges of the planetary nebula glowing over the background stars.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EsoTopNews/~4/Ds7S1MIIFug" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2012/</guid><enclosure url="https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2012a.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><feedburner:origLink>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2012/</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>