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| A plume on Betelgeuse (artist’s impression) |
The black hole inside NGC 300 X-1 (artist’s impression) |
Burning lithium inside a star |
Artist's impression of the newly discovered planetary system Gliese 581 |
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| Increasing the Odds of the Sweep |
A Laser Comb for Astronomy |
Paranal Observatory - Instruments |
Black hole zapping a galaxy into existence |
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| The Highly Unstable Star Eta Carinae (Artist's Impression) |
A Trio of Super-Earths |
GJ1214b (Artist’s impression) |
The European Extremely Large Telescope |
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| The European Extremely Large Telescope |
A binary black hole |
Accretion Discs Show Their True Colours |
Artist’s impression of Corot-7b |
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| Cepheids in the Solar Neighbourhood |
Position of RS Pup in the Galaxy (Arstist's Impression) |
A Thick Belt around a Massive star in another Galaxy |
Planet-forming disc (Artist's Impression) |
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| Disc Around Young Star |
Pluto-Charon system |
A Galactic Fossil |
Icy Exoplanet |
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| Dust Cloud in a R CrB Star (Artist's Impression) |
New Brown Dwarf in the Solar Neighbourhood (Artist's Impression) |
The Inner Winds of Eta Carinae |
The Radial Velocity Method |
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| Asymmetric Ashes |
The Be Star Alpha Arae (Artist's Impression) |
Artist's impression of the engulfment of a planet |
Structure of Stars |
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| The Inner Part of an Active Galactic Nucleus (Artist's Impression) |
Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood |
Artist's rendering of the 2M1207 System |
The Hibernating Stellar Magnet |
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| The Double Firing Burst (Artist's Impression) |
The MCAO Concept |
The Principle of Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) |
Mechanical Design of an IFU |
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| An illustration of how the IFUs function |
A plume on Betelgeuse (artist’s impression with annotations) |
VLT Interferometer Principle |
The Merging Scenario |
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| Light Echoes (Artist's Impression) |
The life of Sun-like stars |
Interferometric observations: Fringes from two stars of different angular size |
Interferometric observations: Change of fringes with increasing baseline |
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| Jets from a Brown Dwarf |
The Earth-like Planet Gliese 581 c |
VLT Survey Provides New Insight into Formation of Galaxies |
Drizzly Mornings on Xanadu |