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Frantic activity revealed in dusty stellar factories

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain) used NACO, a sharp-eyed adaptive optics instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), to study the fine detail in ...

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created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0




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The turbulent birth of super star clusters in galaxy mergers

By combining two of the most advanced telescopes in the world -- the new Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of ESO -- a team of French astronomers from the Institut d'astrophysique ...

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VLT takes most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESO's Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular ...

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created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Chandra finds Milky Way's black hole grazing on asteroids

(PhysOrg.com) -- The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to astronomers using data from NASA's ...

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created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

ESO team succeeds in linking telescopes at Paranal Observatory into giant VLT

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working as part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at the Cerra Paranal Mountain Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile, have succeeded in virtually connecting all ...

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created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

A pocket of star formation

(PhysOrg.com) -- This new view shows a stellar nursery called NGC 3324. It was taken using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The intense ultraviolet ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The wild early lives of today's most massive galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the APEX telescope, a team of astronomers has found the strongest link so far between the most powerful bursts of star formation in the early Universe, and the most massive galaxies ...

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created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

The Helix Nebula in new colors

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESO's VISTA telescope, at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, has captured a striking new image of the Helix Nebula. This picture, taken in infrared light, reveals strands of cold nebular gas ...

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created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Eagle Nebula: A new view of an icon

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Eagle Nebula as never seen before. In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope's 'Pillars of Creation' image of the Eagle Nebula became one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. Now, ...

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created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A wealth of habitable planets in the Milky Way

An international team has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky Way.

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 102 | with audio podcast

The smoky pink core of the Omega Nebula

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image of the Omega Nebula, captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), is one of the sharpest of this object ever taken from the ground. It shows the dusty, rose-coloured central parts ...

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created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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