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Frantic activity revealed in dusty stellar factories

Frantic activity revealed in dusty stellar factories

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

(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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The trilogy is complete -- GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3

The trilogy is complete -- GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3

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created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

The newly released image extends across a field of view of more than one and a half square degree — an area eight times larger than that of the full Moon — and was obtained with the Wide Field Imager attached ...


NGC 4945: The Milky Way's not-so-distant Cousin

NGC 4945: The Milky Way's not-so-distant Cousin

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESO has released a striking new image of a nearby galaxy that many astronomers think closely resembles our own Milky Way. Though the galaxy is seen edge-on, observations of NGC 4945 suggest ...


Black hole outflows from Centaurus A detected with APEX

Black hole outflows from Centaurus A detected with APEX

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have a new insight into the active galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128), as the jets and lobes emanating from the central black hole have been imaged at submillimetre wavelengths for ...


The Milky Way's tiny but tough galactic neighbor

The Milky Way's tiny but tough galactic neighbor

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created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 1

In the new ESO image, Barnard's Galaxy glows beneath a sea of foreground stars in the direction of the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). At the relatively close distance of about 1.6 million light-years, ...


Blue Flash at Paranal

Solar games at Paranal

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 02, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Cerro Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, is certainly one of the best astronomical sites on the planet. Stunning images, obtained by ESO staff at Paranal, of the green and blue flashes, as well as ...


Double engine for a nebula

Double engine for a nebula

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created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- The new image, showing a very rich field of stars towards the Carina arm of the Milky Way, is centred on the star HD 87643, a member of the exotic class of B[e] stars [1]. It is part of a ...


Cepheids in the Solar Neighborhood

Pinning down the Milky Way's spin

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created Sep 19, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (26) | comments 5

New, very precise measurements have shown that the rotation of the Milky Way is simpler than previously thought. A remarkable result from the most successful ESO instrument HARPS, shows that a much debated, ...


Zooming to the centre of the Milky Way -- GigaGalaxy Zoom phase 2

Zooming to the centre of the Milky Way -- GigaGalaxy Zoom phase 2

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created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The second of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project has just been released online. It is a new and wonderful 340-million-pixel vista of the central parts of our home galaxy as seen ...


A Pool of Distant Galaxies

A pool of distant galaxies -- the deepest ultraviolet image of the universe yet

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created Nov 07, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 5

This uniquely beautiful patchwork image, with its myriad of brightly coloured galaxies, shows the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S), arguably the most observed and best studied region in the entire sky. The ...


An eagle of cosmic proportions

An Eagle of Cosmic Proportions

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created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today ESO has released a new and stunning image of the sky around the Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant star clusters carve out monster columns of dust and gas.



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