Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our galaxy over more ...

Astronomers using the VISTA telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory have discovered a previously unknown component of the Milky Way. By mapping out the locations of a class of stars that vary in ...

This image from ESO’s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar ...

Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (Vista) telescope, the scientists monitored the central regions of the Milky Way for more than ...

It dwarfs the previous attempt by the same team, published in 2012, which also used the VISTA survey telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama desert.