Virtual guided tour ESO's Paranal Observatory. Saturday, July 30th, 15:00h CST. - YouTube - astrophysics

All the ESO observatories are located in the Atacama desert of Chile.Mt.Paranal is the main optical facility.ESO is sponsored by a consortium of 16 EU member states plus partner Australia.It's one of the main centers of astrophysics research in the world.Others include Mt.Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii and Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson,Arizona.Caltech operates the Palomar Mountain Observatory in San Diego County,California.Scientists from all over the world can book time at these observatories.

Zooming in on Betelgeuse - European Southern Observatory - astrophysics

The video takes the viewer from the constellation of Orion to the surface of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse,which underwent an unprecedented dimming in 2019 and 2020.This was observed by this blog.As we zoom closer to the star,we see the star's "flames",clouds of dust in a dramatic image taken with the VISIR instrument on the Very Large Telescope.The dot appearing at the end of the zoom is a March 2020 image taken with the SPHERE instrument of the Very Large Telescope.It shows Betelgeuse's visible surface,which has a sixe close to that of the orbit of Jupiter.*Text by ESO and edited by Andrew Taylor*Red supergiants progress to a supernova explosion,so Betelgeuse is closely monitored by scientests.

A journey to Proxima Centauri and its planet - YouTube - ESO - astrophysics

This video (silent) shows an artist's impression of a trip from Earth to Proxima b,the closest planet to our Solar System.As we leave our Solar System,we see the familiar constellation figures,including the Southern Cross (Crux) and the bright stars Alpha and Beta Centauri.We gradually close on a faint red star,Beta Centauri,the closest star to Earth and the faintest component of a triple star system.The final part shows the planet Proxima b,the closest exoplanet to our Solar System. ESO edited by Andrew Taylor Credit:ESO,/L. Calcada/Nick Risinger (sky survey.org) Located in Atacama,Chile,the ESO is supported by a consortium of EU member states.

Record-breaking quasar's growth is equivalent to 'one Sun per day' -YouTube - Space.com - astrophysics

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Atacama,Chile have discovered the brightest object in the universe with the Very Large Telescope.A quasar,short for "quasi-stellar",is an Active Galactic Nucleus powered by gases streaming into a supermassive black hole.

Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More - astrophysics

Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More: Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light.