32 New Planets Found By ESO's HARPS Spectrograph

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory  have discovered 32 new planets outside of our solar system using the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph. HARPS has now...

ESO's VLT Captures Stunning Image of Spiral Galaxy

Public release from ESO  9-Nov-2007." VLT captures stunning image of twisted spiral galaxy Caption: Image obtained with ESO's Very Large Telescope of the spiral galaxy observed by the European...

Crowdsourcing astronomy

How amateur and professional astronomers worked together to discover a bizarre astronomical phenomenon.A terrific endorsement of citizen science, citizen journalism and crowdsourcing.