Very Large Telescope

A view of the centre of the Milky Way by the Very Large Telescope. Credit ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al.

Eye On The Sky Very Large Telescope views the centre of the Milky Way

The Seagull Nebula VLT Survey Telescope, 7 August 2019. Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team/N.J. Wright (Keele University)

Astrophotography

Eye On The Sky Very Large Telescope images the Seagull Nebula

An image of the newborn planet and its host star. The dark circle at the centre is a mask that blocks the light of the central star so astronomers can see the fainter disc and planet. The planet is the bright spot to the right of the black circle. Image Credit: ESO/A. Müller et al.

Newborn planet captured orbiting star

Planetary nebula NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, glows pink and blue. These observations with the Very Large Telescope have been used to create the first detailed optical maps of gas and dust distributed throughout a planetary nebula. Image Credit: ESO/J. Walsh

VLT images the Saturn Nebula

The Milky Way stretches across the sky above ESO's Paranal Observatory, location of of the Very Large Telescope. Credit: John Colosimo (colosimophotography.com)/ESO

Gallery 10 amazing Very Large Telescope images

The Very Large Telescope was able to measure information about the planet's chemical composition, temperature and pressure structure. Image Credit: ESO/M Kornmesser

Boiling exoplanet has titanium atmosphere

False-colour near-infrared image of the core of cluster RCW 38 taken with NACO, spanning 1.5 light-years. The insets show a few of the faintest and least massive brown dwarfs (circled) Credit: Koraljka Muzic, University of Lisbon, Portugal / Aleks Scholz, University of St. Andrews, UK / Rainer Schoedel, University of Granada, Spain / Vincent Geers, UKATC Edinburgh, UK / Ray Jayawardhana, York University, Canada / Joana Ascenso, University of Lisbon, University of Porto, Portugal, Lucas Cieza, University Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.

The Milky Way is home to 100 billion ‘failed stars’

Image credit: ESO/UltraVISTA team Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU

ESO unveils widest ever deep view of the sky