Seemed like an appropriate image to kick off the holiday season: Full image is here From the European Southern Observatory: “The MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a richly colourful view of the bright star cluster NGC 3532. Some of the stars still shine with a hot bluish colour, […]
Another “Science Friday” courtesy of the European Southern Observatory. From ESO, (link here) “The HARPS instrument at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has been used to make the most complete census of comets around another star ever created. A French team of astronomers has studied nearly 500 individual comets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris […]
Another “Science Friday” contribution selected from the prolific European Southern Observatory. As always, its worth going to the ESO site for the expanded image. ESO Caption: “The Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has taken this beautiful image, dappled with blue stars, of one of the […]
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 […]
Image Credit: ESO The European Southern Observatory at La Silla released this image of a glowing hydrogen cloud, or nebula, Gum 41. The glow is caused by the searing radiation emitted by young, very hot stars which excites the hydrogen gas left over from star formation. This nebula is in the constellation Centaurus in the […]
(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 […]
After a week which began with a North Korean nuclear test and ended with a meteor strike over the skies of Russia which NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory now estimates released nearly 500 kilotons of energy, followed by a near miss with a much larger asteroid why not start off a new week with something a little less ominous, perhaps another stunning image from the […]
Another amazing image from the European Southern Observatory, this one taken from the 2.2 meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image shows a stellar nursery in the cloud Lupus 3, 5 light years across and located 600 light years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. The coffee colored cloud is host to a […]
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