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Article Here: http://www.quantumday.com/2012/08/vlt... This zoom video sequence starts with a wide view of the large but faint constellation of Eridanus (The River), not far from the more familiar form of Orion (The Hunter). As we zoom in we see a small patch of light that proves to be an attractive spiral galaxy named NGC 1187. The detailed final view shows a new VLT image of this object. Credit: ESO/A. Fujii/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin. Music: Disasterpeace (http://disasterpeace.com/)

Read article here: http://www.quantumday.com/2012/07/ape... This is an artist's impression of the quasar 3C 279. Astronomers connected the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), in Chile, to the Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii, USA, and the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) in Arizona, USA for the first time, to make the sharpest observations ever, of the centre of a distant galaxy, the bright quasar 3C 279. Quasars are the very bright centres of distant galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes. This quasar contains a black hole with a mass about one billion times that of the Sun, and is so far from Earth that its light has taken more than 5 billion years to reach us. The team were able to probe scales of less than a light-year across the quasar — a remarkable achievement for a target that is billions of light-years away. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Article here: http://www.quantumday.com/2014/01/pla... Using ESO's High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that is remarkable in two aspects; it is orbiting a rare solar twin and that it is found in an open star cluster. The planet, found in star cluster Messier 67, is orbiting a star that has features almost identical to the Earth's Sun; a solar twin. This is the first solar twin in a star cluster to have a planet orbiting it. The planet is more massive than Jupiter and takes 122 days to orbit the star. In this ESOcast we look at how astronomers have used ESO's HARPS planet hunter in Chile, along with other telescopes around the world, to discover three planets orbiting stars in the cluster Messier 67. Although more than one thousand planets outside the Solar System are now confirmed, only a handful have been found in star clusters. Remarkably one of these new exoplanets is orbiting a star that is a rare solar twin — a star that is almost identical to the Sun in all respects. Credit: ESO. Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser and Luis Calçada. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Phillip Keane and Richard Hook. Music: Toomas Erm. Footage and photos: ESO, Luis Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Martin Kornmesser, ESA/Hubble, Alexandre Santerne and Nick Risinger (http://www.skysurvey.org/). Directed by: Herbert Zodet. Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen. Usage of ESO Images and Videos: http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/co...

Article here: http://www.quantumday.com/2012/06/ast... This video based on an artist's impression shows the exoplanet Tau Boötis b. This was one of the first exoplanets to be discovered back in 1996, and it is still one of the closest planetary systems known to date. Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have caught and studied the faint light from the planet Tau Boötis b for the first time. By employing a clever observational trick the team find that the planet's atmosphere seems to be cooler higher up, the opposite of what was expected. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada