VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy), a new telescope, has just started work at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. VISTA is a survey telescope working at infrared wavelengths and is the world’s largest telescope dedicated to mapping...

Ever heard about a Cannibal galaxy? Read on to find out more about an interesting galaxy that eats other galaxies! A new technique using near-infrared images, obtained with ESO’s 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT), allows astronomers to see through the opaque dust lanes of the giant cannibal...

Earlier this week, a team of astronomers, who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), the spectrograph for ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope, announced the discovery of 32 new exoplanets. The announcement was made at an international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto. Exoplanets...