The Cone Nebula is part of a star-forming region ... and low dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), and released on the occasion of ESO’s 60th ...

Inside the bright but unassumingly named nebula Gum 55 lies a dark nebula - a rift of dust grains that absorb visible light - creating a swatch of darkness against the glow of bright gas.

On the right is a view of the nebula in visible light, taken using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope ...

This color-composite image of the Helix Nebula was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager, an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2 meter Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope ...