Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...

Very Large Telescope (VLT). VLT, which cost some $350 million to build in the 1990s ($840 million in today's dollars), is one of the world's most sensitive sky-watching instruments, capable of ...

Chilean astronomers have observed a cataclysmic variable known as V1425 Aql. As a result, they have found that this system ...

AN ALIEN planet with traces of water and “complex weather patterns like Earth” might be seen like a good contender for a Planet B. But it would be impossible for us humans to survive ...

Additionally, AES Andes said in its statement that the sky brightness at the telescope sites will only increase by 0.09 percent at the ELT and 0.27 percent at the Very Large Telescope, also ...

Paranal Observatory is home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which comprises four telescopes each with a 27-foot (8.2-meter) mirror and four auxiliary telescopes with 6-foot (1.8-meter ...

This supermassive black hole-food cooling process was discovered by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe some of the universe's most ...

The discovery was made possible using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory ...

A team led by Lisa Nortmann of Germany's University of Göttingen used a spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope in Chile to ...

This supermassive black hole-food cooling process was discovered by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe some of the universe's most massive ...