Scientists discovered a "metal scar" on a star that could be used to identify white dwarfs that are cannibals, eating up the planets and asteroids that it was born with.
ESO's VLT captured haunting yet colorful wispy remains of a stellar corpse. European South Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) captured a scene deep in space that looks like it was ripped off from a fairytale book.
A group of astronomers accidentally discovered the heaviest element yet in two exotic exoplanets. The heaviest element ever identified in an exoplanet atmosphere, barium, has been found by astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).