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100 najboljih slika

1. First Image of a Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow.
The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The black hole’s boundary — the event horizon ...

2. Veoma Veliki Teleskop fotografiše zvezdane jaslice i time proslavlja 15 uspešnih godina rada

3. Živopisna oblast gde nastaju zvezde

4. Maglina „Torov šlem“ snimljena povodom pedesetogodišnjeg jubileuma ESO

5. VLT gleda u oči device

6. Zvezdano polje od 340 miliona piksela sa Parnala

7. Maglina Heliks

8. Centar Mlečnog puta

9. Maglina Konjska glava

10. Dubok infracrveni pogled u maglinu Orion od HAWK-I

11. VLT Survey teleskopska slika Carina magline

12. Duboki pogled u srce cudne galaksije Centaurus A

13. VLT od ESO otkriva tajne magline Carina

14. VST snimak oblasti gde nastaju zvezde - Messier 17

15. VST snimak velikog kuglastog zvezdanog jata Omega Centauri

16. Messier 78: Refleksiona maglina u Orionu

17. 2M1207b - Prva fotografija egzo planete

18. Skrivene vatre Plamene Magline

19. Panorama Mlecnog Puta

20. Maglina Omega

21. NGC 2264 i zvezdano jato Bozicna Jelka

22. Spiralna galaksija NGC 1232

23. Maglina Orion i njena jata, snimljena sa VLT Survey teleskopom

24. Nocni Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ispod Magelanovih oblaka

25. VISTA-Gigapikselmosaik Centralne oblasti Mlecnog Puta

26. Južni Mlečni put iznad ALME

27. ALMIN svet noću

28. Nebeska oblast oko R Coronae Australis, viđeno sa Wide Field Imagerom na La Silla opservatoriji

30. Skup dalekih galaksija

31. Panoramski snimak oblasti oko WR 22 i Eta Carinae

32. Na pragu jedne teške radne noći

33. Kompozit antenskih galaksija od ALMA i Hubble-podataka

34. VISTA-infracrveni snimak magline Mačja šapa

35. VISTIN infracrveni pogled na maglinu Orion

36. Portret aktivne zvezdane kolevke

37. APEX na Chajantoru

38. Rano ujutru na Parnalu

39. Zvezdano jato NGC 3293

40. Usni deo magline Lula

41. Mesec i traka Mlečnog puta

42. Pomračen Mesec, divno zvezdano nebo

43. VISTA-infracrveni pogled zvezdanih jaslica u Jednorogu

44. VLT u akciji

45. Retka 360°-panorama juznog zvezdanog neba

46. Maglina Orao

47. Zvoncica galakticki trio

48. Total solar eclipse, La Silla Observatory, 2019

On 2 July 2019 a total solar eclipse passed over ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The eclipse lasted roughly two and a half hours, with almost two minutes of totality at 20:39 UT, and was visible across a narrow band of Chile and Argentina. To celebrate this rare event ESO invited 1000 people, including dignitaries, school children, the media, researchers, and the general public, to come to the Observatory to watch the eclipse from this unique location.

49. Total solar eclipse, La Silla Observatory, 2019

On 2 July 2019 a total solar eclipse passed over ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The eclipse lasted roughly two and a half hours, with almost two minutes of totality at 20:39 UT, and was visible across a narrow band of Chile and Argentina. To celebrate this rare event ESO invited 1000 people, including dignitaries, school children, the media, researchers, and the general public, to come to the Observatory to watch the eclipse from this unique location.

50. ALMA-fotografija protoplanetarnog diska oko HL Tauri

51. ALMA i centar Mlecnog Puta

52. Kosmička vatrena kugla iznad ALME

53. Tri planete igraju iznad La Silla opservetorije

54. Taman oblak Lupus 3 i njemu pripadajuce vrele, mlade zvezde

55. Kuglasto zvezdano jato 47 Tucanae

56. ALMINA usamljenost

57. Lovci na planete na La Silla opservatoriji

58. Vulkanska kupa Licancabur strazari iznad Chajantora

60. Yepunov laser i Magelanovi oblaci

61. Ledeni spicevi u svetlosti Meseca na Chajantoru

62. Glavno sediste ESO u zalasku Sunca

63. Bliski pogled na dramaticno radjanje zvezda

64. Pogled iz pticije perspektive na Veoma veliki teleskop - VLT

65. Parnal opservatorija sa vulkanom Llullaillaco

66. Laguna maglina kao zvezdani pejsaz od 370 mega piksela

67. Maglina Trifid

68. Spiralna galaksija NGC 253

69. Svetlucave zvezdane jaslice

70. Celestial conjunction at Paranal

In the night sky over ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) observatory at Paranal, the Moon shines along with two bright companions : already aloft in the heavens and glowing in the centre of the image is Venus, Earth’s closest planetary neighbour, and, to its right, the giant, though more distant planet, Jupiter. Such apparent celestial near misses — although the heavenly bodies are actually tens to hundreds of millions of kilometres apart — are called conjunctions.
Still other sights delight this night view at Paranal : the radiant, reddish plane of the Milky Way, smouldering on the horizon, and an ...

71. Portret jedne lepotice

72. The VST captures three spectacular nebulae in one image

Two of the sky’s more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbour in this enormous three gigapixel image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies the faint, glowing cloud of gas called Sharpless 2-54, the iconic Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) is in the centre, and the Omega Nebula (Messier 17) to the left. This cosmic trio makes up just a portion of a vast complex of gas and dust within which new stars are springing to life and illuminating their surroundings.

73. Artist’s impression of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system

This artist’s impression shows the view from the surface of one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. At least seven planets orbit this ultra cool dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth and they are all roughly the same size as the Earth. They are at the right distances from their star for liquid water to exist on the surfaces of several of them.
This artist’s impression is based on the known physical parameters for the planets and stars seen, and uses a vast database of objects in the Universe.

Taken from inside the dome of the fourth Unit Telescope of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), this spectacular shot from ESO Photo Ambassador Yuri Beletsky captures the VLT’s Laser Guide Star (LGS) in action.
The LGS, located on top of the 1.2-metre secondary mirror of Unit Telescope 4, is part of the VLT’s adaptive optics system. By creating a glowing spot — an artificial star — in the Earth’s atmosphere at an altitude of 90 kilometres, the light coming back from the laser can be used as a reference to remove the effects of atmospheric distortion. This allows ...

75. Sjajni Mlečni put iznad La Silla opservatorije

76. Nov pogled u ostatke diska

77. Slika planetarne magline Meduza sa ESA Veoma velikog teleskopa

78. VLT snimak globule CG4 slicne kometi

79. VST je napravio detaljan snimak galaksije Trougao

80. Nova fotografija komete ISON

81. A VISTA before sunset

ESO’s Paranal Observatory — located in Chile’s Atacama region — is most well known for the Very Large Telescope (VLT), ESO’s flagship telescope facility. However, over the last few years, the site has also become home to two state-of-the-art survey telescopes. These new members of the Paranal family are designed to image large areas of the sky quickly and deeply.
One of them, the 4.1-metre Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), is located on a neighbouring peak not far from the Paranal summit. It is shown in this beautiful photograph taken from Paranal by ESO Photo Ambassador, Babak ...

82. Maglina Olovka, cudno oblikovan ostatak snazne eksplozije

83. APEX stands sentry on Chajnantor

The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope looks skyward during a bright, moonlit night on Chajnantor, one of the highest and driest observatory sites in the world. Astronomical treasures fill the sky above the telescope, a testament to the excellent conditions offered by this site in Chile’s Atacama region.
On the left shine the stars that make up the tail of the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). The scorpion’s “stinger” is represented by the two bright stars that are particularly close to each other. Reaching across the sky and looking like a band of faint, glowing clouds is the plane of ...

84. The VLT Survey Telescope: the largest telescope in the world designed for visible light sky surveys

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is the latest telescope to be added to ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is housed in an enclosure immediately adjacent to the four VLT Unit Telescopes on the summit of Cerro Paranal. The VST is a 2.6-metre wide-field survey telescope with a field of view twice as broad as the full Moon. It is the largest telescope in the world dedicated to sky surveys in visible light. The VST was designed and built by the INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy as part of a joint venture between INAF ...

85. Stellar nursery NGC 3603*

NGC 3603 is a starburst region : a cosmic factory where stars form frantically from the nebula’s extended clouds of gas and dust. Located 22,000 light-years away from the Sun, it is the closest region of this kind known in our galaxy, providing astronomers with a local test bed for studying the intense star formation processes, very common in other galaxies, but hard to observe in detail because of their large distance.
The newly released image, obtained with the FORS instrument attached to one of the four 8.2-metre VLT Unit Telescopes at Cerro Paranal, Chile, is a three-colour combination of ...

86. One million stars — towards the dark heart of the Milky Way*

With this remarkable VISTA mosaic we look deep into the dusty heart of our own Milky Way galaxy in the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). About one million stars are revealed in this picture, most of them not seen in visible light pictures. As well as absorbing light, the dust also scatters blue light from the distant stars and makes the central part of this huge starscape appear very red. This image is a mosaic created from VISTA images taken through Y, J and Ks filters in the near-infrared part of the spectrum. The image is about 2 degrees by ...

87. Group portrait of the VLT with the galaxy

The Milky Way, shining in its full splendour on top of the four Unit Telescopes and one of the Auxiliary Telescopes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT).

88. Spiral galaxy NGC 4945

Seen edge-on, observations of NGC 4945 suggest that this hive of stars is a spiral galaxy much like our own Milky Way, with swirling, luminous arms and a bar-shaped centre. Sites of active star formation, known as HII regions, are seen prominently in the image, appearing bright pink. These resemblances aside, NGC 4945 has a brighter centre that likely harbours a supermassive black hole, which is devouring reams of matter and blasting energy out into space. NGC 4945 is about 13 million light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus (the Centaur) and is beautifully revealed in this image taken with ...

89. Sećanje na pomračenje Sunca iznad La Silla opservatorije

90. Clear-weather simulation of the 2019 eclipse viewed from La Silla

This artist’s impression shows how the total solar eclipse of 2 July 2019 could appear from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile if there are no clouds. The Sun will be quite low in the western sky and, if the skies are clear, several planets and bright stars should be also visible.

91. Four lasers over Paranal

Glistening against the awesome backdrop of the night sky above ESO’s Paranal Observatory, four laser beams project out into the darkness from Unit Telescope 4 (UT4) of the Very Large Telescope (VLT); they mark the first use of multiple lasers at ESO and they are the most powerful laser guide stars ever used in astronomy. Some 90 kilometres up in the atmosphere, the lasers excite atoms of sodium, creating artificial stars for the telescope’s adaptive optics systems.
Modern telescopes use adaptive optics systems to compensate for the blurring effect of the Earth’s atmosphere. To do this, the telescope needs to ...

92. Planetarna maglina ESO 378-1

93. Celestial nomad takes centre stage

In this new ESO image, nightfall raises the curtain on a theatrical display taking place in the cloudless skies over La Silla.
In a scene humming with activity, the major players captured here are Comet Lovejoy, glowing green in the centre of the image; the Pleiades above and to the right; and the California Nebula, providing some contrast in the form of a red arc of gas directly to the right of Lovejoy.
A meteor adds its own streak of light to the scene, seeming to plunge into the hazy pool of green light collecting along the horizon.
The telescopes ...

94. Scarlet and smoke

The smokey black silhouette in this new image is part of a large, sparse cloud of partially ionised hydrogen — an HII region — known as Gum 15. In wide-field images this nebula appears as a striking reddish purple clump dotted with stars and slashed by opaque, weaving dust lanes. This image homes in on one of these dust lanes, showing the central region of the nebula.
These dark chunks of sky have seemingly few stars because lanes of dusty material are obscuring the bright, glowing regions of gas beyond. The occasional stars that do show up in these patches ...

95. Zvezdano porodilište Gum 15

96. Paranal platform after sunset*

This image of the Paranal platform was taken right after sunset. The four Unit Telescopes are ready to start the observations.

97. The Milky Way glitters brightly over ALMA

The Milky Way glitters brightly over ALMA antennas, in this image taken by the ESO Ultra High Definition Expedition team as they capture the site in 4K quality.

98. Veoma veliki teleskop snimio planetarnu maglinu Abel 33

99. The star formation region NGC 6559

The Danish 1.54-metre telescope located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. This region of sky includes glowing red clouds of mostly hydrogen gas, blue regions where starlight is being reflected from tiny particles of dust and also dark regions where the dust is thick and opaque.

100. Curious spiral spotted by ALMA around red giant star R Sculptoris (data visualisation)

Observations using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed an unexpected spiral structure in the material around the old star R Sculptoris. This feature has never been seen before and is probably caused by a hidden companion star orbiting the star. This slice through the new ALMA data reveals the shell around the star, which shows up as the outer circular ring, as well as a very clear spiral structure in the inner material.

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