Star trails are the visible imprint of Earth's rotation. As our planet spins around its axis, the stars appear to sweep ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the sky above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile. The lasers successfully created an "artificial star" that astronomers can use to ...

The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is 6000 light years away from Earth. Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team. Music: Mylonite - ...

Garching bei München, Germany -- The Council of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has appointed Andreas Kaufer to be the new ESO Director General. Kaufer, who is currently ESO Director of ...

Tides will ‘contribute to the most precise measurements of the effects of dark energy on the cosmic expansion rate’, said the project’s lead. Astrophysicists from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) are ...

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos near the Paranal Observatory. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes A new ...

This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in Northern ...

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The night skies above the Chilean desert are the best in the world to see deep into space, but light pollution from a planned industrial project could change that, as John Bartlett reports. JOHN ...