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class="sprites-esologo" title="European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere"></div> <span>European<br>Southern<br>Observatory</span> </a> </div> </div> <div id="pr-carousel"> <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2417/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2417a.jpg" alt="Image of the star WOH G64 taken by the VLTI"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2417 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">“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. Located a staggering 160 000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). The new observations reveal a star puffing out gas and dust, in the last stages before it becomes a supernova.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2416/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2416a.jpg" alt="The Dark Wolf Nebula"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2416 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">New ESO image captures a dark wolf in the sky</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, it was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2415/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2415a.jpg" alt="The REBELS-25 galaxy"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2415 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it was when the Universe was only 700 million years old. This is surprising since, according to our current understanding of galaxy formation, such early galaxies are expected to appear more chaotic. The rotation and structure of REBELS-25 were revealed using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2414/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2414a.jpg" alt="Artist’s impression of a sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard’s star"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2414 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Scientists discover planet orbiting closest single star to our Sun</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus, a year lasts just over three Earth days. The team’s observations also hint at the existence of three more exoplanet candidates, in various orbits around the star.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2413/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2413a.jpg" alt="Highlights of the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2413 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of data, this is the largest observational project ever carried out with an ESO telescope.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2412/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2412a.jpg" alt="Detailed images of the surface of the star R Doradus"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2412 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Astronomers track bubbles on star’s surface in most detailed video yet</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">For the first time, astronomers have captured images of a star other than the Sun in enough detail to track the motion of bubbling gas on its surface. The images of the star, R Doradus, were obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a telescope co-owned by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), in July and August 2023. They show giant, hot bubbles of gas, 75 times the size of the Sun, appearing on the surface and sinking back into the star’s interior faster than expected.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2411/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2411a.jpg" alt="Illustration of the highest-resolution detections ever made from the surface of Earth"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2411 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">EHT scientists make highest-resolution observations yet from the surface of Earth</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has conducted test observations, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other facilities, that achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of Earth [1]. They managed this feat by detecting light from distant galaxies at a frequency of around 345 GHz, equivalent to a wavelength of 0.87 mm. The Collaboration estimates that in future they will be able to make black hole images that are 50% more detailed than was possible before, bringing the region immediately outside the boundary of nearby supermassive black holes into sharper focus. They will also be able to image more black holes than they have done so far. The new detections, part of a pilot experiment, were published today in The Astronomical Journal.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2410/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2410a.jpg" alt="The 949th ELT mirror segment is cast and ready to take shape"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2410 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Last segment blank of the world’s largest telescope mirror successfully delivered</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">The European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope (ESO’s ELT), under construction in the Chilean Atacama Desert, is one step closer to completion. German company SCHOTT has successfully delivered the blank for the last of the 949 segments commissioned for the telescope’s primary mirror (M1). With a diameter of more than 39 metres, M1 will be by far the largest mirror ever made for a telescope.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2409/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2409a.jpg" alt="Artist’s impression: the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 lighting up"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2409 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Astronomers see a massive black hole awaken in real time</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">In late 2019 the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before. To understand why, astronomers have used data from several space and ground-based observatories, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to track how the galaxy’s brightness has varied. In a study out today, they conclude that they are witnessing changes never seen before in a galaxy — likely the result of the sudden awakening of the massive black hole at its core.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/announcements/ann24010/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/ann24010a.jpg" alt="Signing of the ANDES agreement"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">ann24010</div> <div class="pr-title">ESO signs agreement for ANDES instrument on the ELT</div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2408/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2408a.jpg" alt="Artist’s impression of the system with the most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2408 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission because it imposes an odd ‘wobbling’ motion on the companion star orbiting it. Data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and other ground-based observatories were used to verify the mass of the black hole, putting it at an impressive 33 times that of the Sun.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2407/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2407a.jpg" alt="The nebula (NGC 6164/6165) surrounding HD 148937 as seen in visible light"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2407 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Beautiful nebula, violent history: clash of stars solves stellar mystery</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were in for a surprise. Star pairs are typically very similar, like twins, but in HD 148937, one star appears younger and, unlike the other, is magnetic. New data from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) suggest there were originally three stars in the system, until two of them clashed and merged. This violent event created the surrounding cloud and forever altered the system’s fate.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2406/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2406a.jpg" alt="A view of the Milky Way supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarised light"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2406 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Astronomers unveil strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milky Way’s central black hole</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Seen in polarised light for the first time, this new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has revealed a magnetic field structure strikingly similar to that of the black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy, suggesting that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes. This similarity also hints toward a hidden jet in Sgr A*. The results were published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/announcements/ann24005/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/ann24005a.jpg" alt="Who’s the fairest mirror segment of them all?"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">ann24005</div> <div class="pr-title">First segments of world’s largest telescope mirror have a shiny new surface</div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2405/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2405a.jpg" alt="Planet-forming discs in three clouds of the Milky Way"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2405 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Groundbreaking survey reveals secrets of planet birth around dozens of stars</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">In a series of studies, a team of astronomers has shed new light on the fascinating and complex process of planet formation. The stunning images, captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, represent one of the largest ever surveys of planet-forming discs. The research brings together observations of more than 80 young stars that might have planets forming around them, providing astronomers with a wealth of data and unique insights into how planets arise in different regions of our galaxy.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2404/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2404a.jpg" alt="Water in the HL Tauri disc"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2404 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Astronomers reveal a new link between water and planet formation</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">Researchers have found water vapour in the disc around a young star exactly where planets may be forming. Water is a key ingredient for life on Earth, and is also thought to play a significant role in planet formation. Yet, until now, we had never been able to map how water is distributed in a stable, cool disc — the type of disc that offers the most favourable conditions for planets to form around stars. The new findings were made possible thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner.</div> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div>  <div class="slide"> <a href="/public/news/eso2403/"> <img draggable="false" data-lazy="https://cdn.eso.org/images/banner1920/eso2403a.jpg" alt="Artist’s impression of WD 0816-310, a magnetic white dwarf with a metal scar"> <div class="pr-content"> <div class="pr-description"> <div class="pr-type">eso2403 — Press Release</div> <div class="pr-title">Metal scar found on cannibal star</div> <div class="pr-extra"> <div class="pr-headline">When a star like our Sun reaches the end of its life, it can ingest the surrounding planets and asteroids that were born with it. Now, using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, researchers have found a unique signature of this process for the first time — a scar imprinted on the surface of a white dwarf star. 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