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ESO Captures Sharpest View Ever of Ring Around a Dying Star
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ESO Captures Sharpest View Ever of Ring Around a Dying Star

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 […]

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A Spectacular Landscape of Star Formation
By 2014.08.22 0 Comments Read More →

A Spectacular Landscape of Star Formation

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 […]

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