This spectacularly starry landscape is the first breathtaking photo to be captured by a massive new telescope deep in Chile's arid Atacama Desert. The region is home to some of the clearest skies on ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A gorgeous photo of a star-forming region of space called the Carina Nebula marks the ...

A new image from the VLT Survey Telescope shows a beautiful region called the Running Chicken Nebula, which makes for a striking festive scene. Located 6,500 light-years away, this region is full of ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 light ...

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured this richly detailed new image of the Lagoon Nebula. This giant cloud of gas and dust is creating intensely bright ...

New images show the Lagoon Nebula, classified as Messier 8, located just 5,000 light-years from Earth, as teeming with star formation activity. The mix of gas and dust has made the nebula a perfect ...

A favorite pastime for us Earth-bound cloud gazers is to dream up animals that resemble a nearby cumulus cloud. Well, astronomers are no different when it comes to cosmic “clouds” of gas, dust, and ...

Two of the sky's more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbor in an enormous new three gigapixel image from ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies Sharpless 2-54, ...

Most the night sky's stars are ancient: legacies of star-forming nebulae and young clusters that dissociated long ago. The ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST), equipped with a wide-field view and a 268 ...