From the European Southern Observatory: The Very Large Telescope Interferometer at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile has obtained the sharpest view ever of the dusty disc around an aging star. For the first time such features can be compared to those around young stars — and they look surprisingly similar. It is even possible that […]
Image Credit: VLT Survey Telescope, ESO Always nice to end the week with an observation from the wildly prolific European Southern Observatory. Source: ESO Top News “The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured a beautifully detailed image of the galaxy Messier 33. This nearby spiral, the second closest large […]
(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 […]
For anyone with even a passing interest in the night sky, there has probably never been a better time to be alive. Almost weekly, we are learning more and more about the worlds which surround us, a fact underscored last week when radar imaged passing Near Earth Asteroid 1998 QE2 complete with its own tiny “moon.” One of […]
If you think about it, the common expression “you can’t make this stuff up” is more often than not a wholly inaccurate and long-winded way of saying “wow.” The universe of things we can’t make up is presumably pretty confined, but then again, not really knowable is it? Human beings in fact regularly “make up” all sorts of things, much of which […]
The European Southern Observatory in Chile is in some ways the Earth bound counterpart to the Hubble Space Telescope, providing both groundbreaking research as well as simply stunning images of deep space which often defy imagination, such as the image shown above, taken with the Very Large Telescope, which shows a planetary nebula surrounding a dying star 3300 light […]
Innerspace.net is primarily focused on developments in the international launch industry and the quest for progressively more affordable space transportation. It also attempts to keep in focus some of the reasons achieving that goal benefits science and society as a whole; to better understand the astonishing wonders in our own solar system, and those far beyond, even if we have […]
From the European Southern Observatory: Using a whopping nine-gigapixel image from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has created a catalogue of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way. This gigantic dataset contains more than ten times more stars than previous studies […]
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