Star birth and death in large Magellanic Cloud captured by ESO

Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 19:25

Large Magellanic Cloud, which is one of our closest galactic neighbours located only about 160 000 light-years from us, is actively forming new stars in regions that are so bright that some can even be seen from Earth with the naked eye.

Novel technique boosts hunt for water on exoplanets

Last Updated: Monday, July 8, 2013, 18:06

Astronomers have detected the tell-tale spectral fingerprint of water molecules in the atmosphere of a planet in orbit around another star.

Dusty surprise around giant black hole discovered

Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 14:50

New observations of a nearby active galaxy using Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at ESO`s Paranal Observatory in Chile have given a team of astronomers a surprise.

Astronomers spot lightest exoplanet

Last Updated: Monday, June 3, 2013, 18:35

Astronomers may have discovered the lightest exoplanet ever seen, which appears just as a dot orbiting a young star.

World’s biggest optical telescope project to go ahead

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 12:16

The world’s largest optical telescope, a 1.1 billion-euro project, is slated to go ahead after getting support from most of the members of the European organization.

How teenage galaxies feed themselves

Last Updated: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 19:22

A new survey of carefully selected galaxies has focussed on their teenage years — roughly the period from about 3 to 5 billion years after the Big Bang.