The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has captured the beauty of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253. The new portrait is probably the most detailed wide-field view of this object and its surroundings ever taken. It demonstrates that the VST, the newest telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory, provides broad views of the sky while also offering impressive image sharpness.

Galaxies in the early universe appears red, because of the cosmological redshift. But some of them ARE actually redwhy is not fully understood: Thay may be dusty or they may contain many old stars, which implies that stars formed very early

Recently an international team of astronomers discovered 2 gigantic black holes with masses about 10 billion times the mass of our Sun. These black holes have a mass more than 50% greater than any other previously measured. Astronomers from University of Toronto belives they may the remains of the Quasars that dominates early universe, but later disappeared.

An international group of astronomers led by Tom Scott at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada, Spain, has discovered extraordinarily long one-sided gaseous tails in 2 groups of galaxies that are amongst the longest structures ever observed in such environments.