This photograph shows four lasers at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, each one launched from one of the four eight-metre telescopes on site. The launch of these lasers represents a significant milestone for ...
To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by ...
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Linked by entanglement, small telescopes may see like one colossal mirror
Space rarely gives up its secrets easily. For instance, what looks like a single ...
The successful creation of a guide star above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile with freshly installed lasers marks a new era of interferometry, according to the ESO team.
The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.
Officials canceled an energy project that put one of the world’s darkest astronomy sites at risk of increased light pollution and vibration.
This animation, provided by the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), shows the path of light inside GRAVITY+, an instrument and a large and complex upgrade to ESO’s Very Large ...
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