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Astronomers Capture Clearest Image of Betelgeuse’s Companion Star

VLT/SPHERE images using exoplanet-style processing reveal a 2–3 solar‑mass candidate called Siwarha with follow-up observations in about one year required to confirm its orbital motion.

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Astronomers Report Jupiter‑Mass Companion Orbiting Brown Dwarf in CD‑35 2722 System

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4w ago

Massive Gaseous Companion Detected Orbiting Brown Dwarf in CD-35 2722

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Astronomers Confirm Third Planet in Beta Pictoris, the Faintest Ever Imaged From Earth

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last mo.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Found to Be Older Than the Sun

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5mo ago

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

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7mo ago

Astronomers Spot Long-Lived Bow Shock Around Diskless White Dwarf, Defying Models

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7mo ago

Diskless White Dwarf Drives Millennia-Long Outflow, Forming Comet-Like Bow Shock

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10mo ago

Rogue Planet Devours Matter at Record 6 Billion Tons Per Second

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10mo ago

Rogue Planet Cha 1107-7626 Undergoes Record Accretion Burst Detected by JWST and VLT

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10mo ago

Rogue Planet Cha 1107‑7626 Caught in Record Growth Spurt at 6 Billion Tons per Second

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10mo ago

Free-Floating Planet Registers Record Growth Burst Spotted by ESO’s VLT

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11mo ago

VLT Interferometry Reweighs Distant Quasar’s Black Hole to About 1 Billion Suns

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last yr.

Astronomers Reveal Universe’s Earliest Supermassive Black Hole and Record 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Titan

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last yr.

Telescopes Witness Key Stages of Planet Formation in Three Young Star Systems

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last yr.

Researchers Estimate 3I/ATLAS Interstellar Comet Is Over Seven Billion Years Old

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last yr.

New VLT Observations Reveal Active Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

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Ultra-Detailed Thousand-Color Image Reveals Sculptor Galaxy’s Internal Structure

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last yr.

Astronomers Capture First Evidence of Quasar Radiation Halting Star Formation in Galaxy Collision

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last yr.

Astronomers Confirm First Polar-Orbiting Exoplanet Around Binary Brown Dwarfs

Very Large Telescope

Astronomers Capture Clearest Image of Betelgeuse’s Companion Star

Astronomers Report Jupiter‑Mass Companion Orbiting Brown Dwarf in CD‑35 2722 System

Massive Gaseous Companion Detected Orbiting Brown Dwarf in CD-35 2722

Astronomers Confirm Third Planet in Beta Pictoris, the Faintest Ever Imaged From Earth

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Found to Be Older Than the Sun

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

Astronomers Spot Long-Lived Bow Shock Around Diskless White Dwarf, Defying Models

Diskless White Dwarf Drives Millennia-Long Outflow, Forming Comet-Like Bow Shock

Rogue Planet Devours Matter at Record 6 Billion Tons Per Second

Rogue Planet Cha 1107-7626 Undergoes Record Accretion Burst Detected by JWST and VLT

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Rogue Planet Cha 1107‑7626 Caught in Record Growth Spurt at 6 Billion Tons per Second

Free-Floating Planet Registers Record Growth Burst Spotted by ESO’s VLT

VLT Interferometry Reweighs Distant Quasar’s Black Hole to About 1 Billion Suns

Astronomers Reveal Universe’s Earliest Supermassive Black Hole and Record 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Titan

Telescopes Witness Key Stages of Planet Formation in Three Young Star Systems

Researchers Estimate 3I/ATLAS Interstellar Comet Is Over Seven Billion Years Old

New VLT Observations Reveal Active Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Ultra-Detailed Thousand-Color Image Reveals Sculptor Galaxy’s Internal Structure

Astronomers Capture First Evidence of Quasar Radiation Halting Star Formation in Galaxy Collision

Astronomers Confirm First Polar-Orbiting Exoplanet Around Binary Brown Dwarfs

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