Category:European Southern Observatory

This is the category for the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization of sixteen countries, doing ground-based astronomical observation at locations in northern Chile.

The full name is European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere.

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• 7 July 2020: Astronomer Anthony Boccaletti discusses observation of birth of potential exoplanet with Wikinews
• 22 May 2020: Astronomer tells Wikinews about discovery of closest black hole known so far
• 21 July 2010: Astronomers discover largest star on record
• 26 April 2007: Newly discovered extra-solar planet may be Earth-like
• 21 August 2006: NASA discovers new evidence of dark matter
• 11 July 2005: Telescope takes first image of planet outside our solar system
• 2 July 2005: First photo of a planet that orbits another sun
• 2 July 2005: Massive star cluster found in Milky Way

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An ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. (Image: European Southern Observatory)