Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) observed the nearby Sculptor Galaxy in thousands of colors simultaneously, capturing a breathtakingly colorful and detailed image that reveals never-before-seen cosmic details. [Read More]
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A new National Geographic documentary, Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, takes a deep dive into the infamous Titanic disaster and centers around a cutting-edge 3D model of the shipwreck, created using 715,000 digital images captured 12,500 feet below the surface of the frigid North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. [Read More] petapixel.com »
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Scientists just further confirmed what has long been believed: that there’s a supermassive black hole scientists named Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. This mind-blowing 1.
Behold: this is the first confirmed image of a planet being born. The image was captured by SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope.
Astronomers using the ESO Very Large Telescope have created the most detailed photo ever of a star other than our own Sun. The subject of the photo is the supergiant Antares, visible to the unaided eye in the constellation Scorpius.