Serious Blow to Dark Matter Theories? - New study finds mysterious lack of dark matter in Sun’s neighbourhood
Press Release Serious Blow to Dark Matter Theories? New study finds mysterious lack of dark matter in Sun’s neighbourhood 18 April 2012 The most accurate study so far of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has found no evidence for dark matter in a large volume around the Sun. According to widely accepted theories, the solar neighbourhood was expected to be filled with dark matter, a mysterious
VLT Finds Fastest Rotating Star
Press Release VLT Finds Fastest Rotating Star 5 December 2011 ESO's Very Large Telescope has picked up the fastest rotating star found so far. This massive bright young star lies in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160 000 light-years from Earth. Astronomers think that it may have had a violent past and has been ejected from a double star system by its exploding companion
Most Distant Quasar Found
A team of European astronomers has used ESO’s Very Large Telescope and a host of other telescopes to discover and study the most distant quasar found to date. This brilliant beacon, powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe. The results will appear in the 30 June 2011 issue of the journal Nature. “This
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The moon and the arc of the Milky Way
All around Chajnantor — A 360-degree panorama
Many Billions of Rocky Planets in the Habitable Zones around Red Dwarfs in the Milky Way
Wish you were here?
A shadow at sunrise
Planet Population is Plentiful - Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception
ALMA's world at night
A double green flash
Full-size Mock-up of World’s Largest Telescope Mirror Built at ESO’s Open House Day
ALMA Opens Its Eyes - The most powerful millimetre/submillimetre-wavelength telescope in the world opens for business and reveals its first image
Red Moon rising
Fifty New Exoplanets Discovered by HARPS - Richest haul of planets so far includes 16 new super-Earths
Laser meets lightning
The Star That Should Not Exist
Flying over the ALMA site: the Array Operations Site
VISTA Finds 96 Star Clusters Hidden Behind Dust - ESO’s infrared survey telescope digs deep into star-forming regions in our Milky Way
European ALMA antenna brings total on Chajnantor to 16 - Getting ready for ALMA’s first scientific observations