Science with ESO Telescopes
ESO telescopes provide the data for many results and breakthroughs in astronomy, and lead to a large number of scientific publications each year. Astronomers use these state-of-the-art observatories to study objects from within our Solar System to the farthest reaches of the Universe.
With two scientific papers being published every day, the ESO Observatories are in fact the most productive ground-based astronomical facilities in the world. The most remarkable of the science produced are showcased in ESO press releases as well as in the ESO Annual Report.
List of ESO's Top-10 discoveries
If you are interested in ESO-related scientific publications, you can:
- Visit the ESO Telescope Bibliography (telbib), which is maintained by the ESO library and contains refereed publications that directly use ESO data (for exact numbers please contact the ESO Library, library@eso.org, or see this PDF).
- Subscribe to this RSS Feed.
In this section you will find a couple of examples of astronomical research based on data obtained with ESO telescopes and instruments:
Exoplanets
The search for planets outside our Solar System
Visible Detections of Gravitational Wave Sources
The start of multi-messenger astronomy
A Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy
Gamma-Ray Bursts