ESOcast 225 Light: ESO Telescope Captures Disappearance of Massive Star Astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable massive star in a dwarf galaxy with ESO’s Very Large Telescope. This video offers a summary of the research. ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Zooming in to the Kinman Dwarf galaxy ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Artist’s animation of the disappearing star ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast 224: First Interstellar Visitors to the Solar System In this ESOcast, we explore some of the many questions interstellar visitors 1I/’Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov have raised including: what are they made of? How did they form? Are they like the comets or asteroids in our Solar System? And finally, what can they reveal about other […]

Animation of star plagued by giant magnetic spot ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Spots on the Sun vs spots on extreme horizontal branch stars (animation) ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast Light 223: Hot Stars are Plagued by Giant Magnetic Spots Astronomers using ESO telescopes have discovered giant spots on the surface of extremely hot stars hidden in stellar clusters. This video offers a summary of the discovery. ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast 222: Ten Fascinating Paradoxes about the Universe This video lets you see some of the many things we do not understand in the Universe, and the strange and surreal paradoxes in what we think we understand… ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Zooming in to AB Aurigae ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast 221 Light: ESO Telescope Sees Signs of Planet Birth Observations with ESO’s SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope have revealed the telltale signs of a star system being born. ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Zooming in to the inner region of the AB Aurigae system ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Artist’s animation of the triple system with the closest black hole ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Zooming into HR 6819 ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast 220 Light: Closest Black Hole to Earth Found A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has discovered a black hole lying just 1000 light-years from Earth. The black hole is closer to our Solar System than any other found to date and forms part of a triple system […]

ESOcast 219 Light: Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole ESO’s Very Large Telescope has observed a star dancing around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. The observations have revealed, for the first time, that the star’s orbit is shaped like a rosette and not like an ellipse. ESO Video Casts […]

Interview with Reinhard Genzel (in English) ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Artist’s animation of S2’s precession effect ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Interview with Reinhard Genzel (in German) ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Another artist’s impression of S2’s precession effect ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESO astronomy at home As doctors and nurses are on the frontlines, saving the lives of those infected by COVID-19, others have a role to play to prevent the disease spreading further by staying at home. This goes for ESO staff as well, including astronomers and telescope operators. ESO Video Casts Go to Source