The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is ...

MOST (4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope) instrument observed the sky with its full array of 2,400 optical fibers ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

The presidents of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru met today at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile, seeing first-hand the state-of-the-art telescopes and technology of ESO’s ...

On October 18, 2025, the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at ...

Garching bei München, Germany -- The Council of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has appointed Andreas Kaufer to be ...

The night skies above the Chilean desert are the best in the world to see deep into space, but light pollution from a planned industrial project could change that, as John Bartlett reports. JOHN ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 light ...

This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in Northern ...

Caption: Three different views of the Paranal site: in 1991, still as a remote mountain peak in the Atacama desert, with a few ESO containers in place; in 1995, at the end of the preparatory ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month. Veteran comet hunters have called G3 (ATLAS) the "Great Comet of 2025" due to ...