Deeper than the Hubble Deep Field

Deeper than the Hubble Deep Field In landmark observations, the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile has given astronomers the best ever three-dimensional view of the deep Universe. After staring at the Hubble Deep Field South region for a total of 27 hours the new observations reveal the distances, motions and other properties of far more galaxies than ever before in this tiny piece of the sky. The new observations are allowing astronomers to go beyond the Hubble Deep Field and reveal a host of previously unseen objects.

Exploding Stars

VLT Update 8 {31st of August 2011}: The Star That Should Not Exist

16 New Earth-Like Planets Discovered

Planet 85512b Holds Promise for Life

Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

Supersonic Stellar Jets

The Most Distant Object In The Universe {20th of October 2010}

VLT Update 2 {22nd of September 2010}: The Great Barred Spiral

VLT Update 5 {22nd June 2011}: Pandora's Cluster

VLT Update 6 {23rd of June 2011}: The Flames of Betelgeuse

VLT Update 8 {31st of August 2011}: The Star That Should Not Exist

A team of European astronomers has used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to track down a star in the Milky Way that many thought was impossible. They discovered that this star is composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, with only remarkably small amounts of other chemical elements in it. This intriguing composition places it in the "forbidden zone" of a widely accepted theory of star formation, meaning that it should never have come into existence in the first place. The results will appear in the 1 September 2011 issue of the journal Nature.