- ESO’s Paranal Observatory starts receiving energy from the largest solar plant in Chile dedicated to astronomy https://www.eso.org/public/usa/announcements/ann22010/?lang= 3 comments worldnews
- Scientists Find Life-Friendly Exoplanet They Say Is Close Enough to Visit https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2202/ 349 comments futurology
- The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest & sharpest images of the region around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The new images zoom in 20 times more than what was possible before the VLTI. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2119/ 3 comments space
- Astronomers measured powerful stratospheric winds on Jupiter for the first time, thanks to the Shoemaker–Levy 9 comet collision that happened more than 25 years ago https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2104/ 3 comments science
- First ever image of a Black Hole was released on this day a year ago http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1907/ 65 comments space
- ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2003/ 157 comments space
- New images of the dimming surface of Betelgeuse https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2003/ 12 comments science
- 9-gigapixel zoomable image of the Milky Way, which includes 88 million stars. Have a gander yourself https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1242a/zoomable/ 127 comments science
- ESO Observations Reveal Black Holes' Breakfast at the Cosmic Dawn https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1921/ 3 comments science
- The last picture of Arp 271 captured by VIMOS before it was decommissioned http://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/images/potw1821a/ 4 comments science
- ESO Remains World’s Most Productive Ground-based Ob http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann18013/ 3 comments space
- VLT detects bubbles on the surface of a star outside the solar system https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1741/ 3 comments science
- Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1736/ 15 comments space
- ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before [X-Post r/Astronomy] http://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/news/eso1737/ 3 comments space
- New planet discovered with possible life https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1736/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialsignin 4 comments science
- Press Conference at ESO HQ Announcing Unprecedented Discovery - Does anyone know what this would be about? https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann17071/ 5 comments space
- ESO Press Release: Best Ever Image of a Star's Surface and Atmosphere https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1726/ 6 comments space
- The first ever image of the surface of another star, Betelgeuse, has been captured by ALMA http://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/images/potw1726a/ 8 comments science
- ESO: Terrestrial Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1629/ 4 comments europe
- Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1629/ 34 comments space
- ALMA has made the first ever resolved observation of a water snow line within a protoplanetary disc. http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1626/ 41 comments space
- Direct image of a planet 1200 light years from Earth http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/potw1624a.tif 80 comments space
- For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disc surrounding a young star. The discovery reaffirms that the conditions that spawned the Earth and Sun are not unique in the Universe. http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1513/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+esotopnews+%28eso+top+news%29 857 comments science
- Discovery of a Pair of Classical Cepheids in an Invisible Cluster Beyond the Galactic Bulge (pdf) http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1504/eso1504a.pdf 3 comments science
- 1:1 scale mock-up of E-ELT mirror made out of 798 pieces of cardboard. http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/stc-2011-09-5470.jpg 32 comments space
- Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years – The Very Large Telescope (Chile) reveals alignments between supermassive black hole axes and large-scale structure. http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1438/ 60 comments science
- ESO is blowing up a mountain to install the worlds largest telescope http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1419c/ 3 comments science
- An asteroid has been found that has 2 rings. We don't know how they formed, how they survive around a body with such low mass, or how long the rings will last. http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1410/eso1410a.pdf 6 comments science
- Artist's illustration of the newly found binary star system. The two stars are so large they actually intersect. The distance between the centers is about the same as from Saturn to our sun. http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/eso1409b.jpg 3 comments space
- Rosetta’s Comet is Waking Up http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/large/potw1410a.jpg 4 comments space
- Oldest Solar Twin Identified "Located 250 light-years from Earth, the star HIP 102152 is more like the Sun than any other solar twin — except that it is nearly four billion years older. This older, but almost identical, twin gives us an unprecedented chance to see how the Sun will look when it ages" http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1337/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+esotopnews+%28eso+top+news%29 7 comments science
- It has been asserted that there are stars in our galaxy, The Milky Way, which are as old as any stars anywhere, so old that they are the first stars formed at the so-called beginning of the universe. http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0425/ 10 comments science
- This is beautiful, but how much of it would I see with my own eyes? (3 minute exposure) http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/large/epod-cc-rf18284.jpg 5 comments space
- Media Advisory: Virtual Press Conference to Announce Major Exoplanet Discovery http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann12072/ 3 comments science
- Astronomers discover sugar molecules in the gas surrounding a young Sun-like star http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1234/ 17 comments science
- Chose where the VLT (big telescope) points! http://www.eso.org/public/vote/eso50/ 7 comments science
- Spiral galaxy with THREE black holes at its centre, NGC 362. Beautiful image from ESO VLT. http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1148a/ 3 comments space
- Mind is blown: "Astronomers are now able to observe the [Halley] comet at any point in its orbit". This is a 11km-diameter rock that orbits the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2003/phot-27-03.html 5 comments science
- The deepest ground based U-band image of the universe yet. The image contains more than 27 million pixels and is the result of 55 hours of observations with the VIMOS instrument. http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/phot-39-08.html 2 comments science
- Astronomers have discovered a bizarre celestial object that emitted 40 visible-light flashes before disappearing again http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/pr-31-08.html 80 comments science