A gorgeous new set of images shows the striking sight of nearby galaxies, captured by a telescope called the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), located at the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured an "array of stars that make up the dwarf galaxy Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM)," according to the NASA. Zoom into the imagery beginning ...

A vast cosmic explosion left behind an intricate masterpiece in the sky — delicate pink and orange filaments dancing in the ...

Gum 41, a radiant nebula in the southern sky, glows due to powerful radiation from a pair of massive stars at its core. This ...

Caption This spectacular picture of the Sh2-284 nebula has been captured in great detail by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Sh2-284 is a star formation region, and at its ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

The VLT is the most highly developed optical instrument in the world and the flagship for European astronomy. It consists of four main telescopes each with a mirror diameter of 8.2 metres and four ...

A nearby planetary system is seen in detail in our first look at an asteroid belt outside our solar system in infrared light ...

The discovery was made possible using the Very Large Telescope (VLT ... is ten times higher than what we typically observe in surveys at this epoch,” said Banerjee. Redshift is a measure ...