Image Credit: ESO Another “Beautiful Universe” Friday from the European Southern Observatory. As always, it is worth a click on the site to get the expandable image. European Southern Observatory Top News: Lupus 4, a spider-shaped blob of gas and dust, blots out background stars like a dark cloud on a moonless night in this […]
Another contribution from the European Southern Observatory in Chile. Original Caption: “This image, captured by the Wide Field Imager at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows two dramatic star formation regions in the southern Milky Way. The first is of these, on the left, is dominated by the star cluster NGC 3603, located 20 […]
Image Credit: ESO From the European Southern Observatory: This colourful new image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the star cluster NGC 3590. These stars shine brightly in front of a dramatic landscape of dark patches of dust and richly hued clouds of glowing gas. This small stellar […]
Note: First it was an asteroid with its own tiny moon, now rings. What an amazing era for studying our own solar system. From the European Southern Observatory Top News “Observations at many sites in South America, including ESO’s La Silla Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by […]
Really, Really Big Credit: ESO Another observation from the European Southern Observatory revealing just how strange, and magnificent, the depths of space can be. ESO Top News: ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has revealed the largest yellow star — and one of the ten largest stars found so far. This hypergiant has been found to […]
(Click to enlarge) At the end of the week, when hopefully a bit of free time approaches, it is sometimes gratifying to see an image like this one, which captures the stunning beauty of the cosmos. Coming as it does from the European Southern Observatory in South America, it also reminds us that if the […]
From the European Southern Observatory: “Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have obtained a vivid close-up view of material streaming away from a newborn star. By looking at the glow coming from carbon monoxide molecules in an object called Herbig-Haro 46/47 they have discovered that its jets are even more energetic than previously […]
Innerspace.net prinicipally covers the world launch industry, but from time to time it is useful to remind ourselves of just why the drive to lower launch costs is important in the first place. One reason among many, to more fully and affordably explore the stunning nature of the universe around us. In recent years, perhaps no institution has done a better job of giving […]
Researchers with the European Southern Observatory have taken a new look at Gliese 667C, part of a trinary system in the constellation Scorpius. Gliese 667C is already something of a phenomenon, with the total planet count now standing at 7. Using imaging from several different telescopes, astronomers have determined that the small star has three large rocky planets or “super earths” orbiting within […]
For the first time ever, astronomers may have captured a direct image of a planet being born. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in conjunction with the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team based in Switzerland found what appears to be the birth of gas giant planet around the star HD 100546, 335 light years away from Earth. The […]
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