Hubble On Holmes: Zooming In On The Mystery Comet

Hubble On Holmes: Zooming In On The Mystery Comet

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of Comet 17P/Holmes, which, to the delight of sky watchers, mysteriously brightened by nearly a millionfold in a 24-hour period beginning Oct…
NGC 134: Island In The Universe

NGC 134: Island In The Universe

Known until now as a simple number in a catalogue, NGC 134, the 'Island in the Universe' that was observed by the European Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potočnik on a visit to ESO's…
The Ghost Universe That Mirrors Our Own

The Ghost Universe That Mirrors Our Own

The "dark matter" that comprises a still-undetected one-quarter of the universe is not a uniform cosmic fog, says a University of California, Berkeley, astrophysicist, but instead forms dense clumps…
Celestial Mandrill Is A Cosmic Ghost

Celestial Mandrill Is A Cosmic Ghost

Two of ESO's telescopes captured various stages in the life of a star in a single image - a cosmic ghost. ESO PR Photo 42a/05 shows the area surrounding the stellar cluster NGC 2467, located in the…
Stellar Vampires Unmasked

Stellar Vampires Unmasked

Astronomers have found possible proofs of stellar vampirism in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, they found that some hot, bright, and apparently young stars in the…