The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution of the debris cloud created by the smash-up over the course of a month; ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...

The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...

Mysterious nickel gas detected in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing unexpected chemistry at enormous distances from the ...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured an unprecedented early snapshot of supernova SN 2024ggi, revealing an elongated, ...

Scientists now have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova, with a massive star exploding in a ...

Chris Ashall, an assistant astronomer at the UH Mānoa Institute for Astronomy, was part of the global team that zeroed in on the stellar explosion known as SN 2024ggi. The supernova was first spotted ...

The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks ...

When a star explodes, it expands at high speed. What a supernova looks like immediately after its onset was therefore unknown ...

ESO's original GRAVITY interferometer had operated since 2016, incorporating a cryogenically cooled Beam Combining Instrument ...

For better images, the European Southern Observatory can combine four optical telescopes. Now, thanks to laser technology, a ...

This year, on 10 November, it is World Science Day for Peace and Development. SALT has had considerable social benefits for ...