Galactic Archaeology

How we study our home galaxy

The many faces of galaxies

Learn to unlock the secrets of galaxy evolution

It's a face... It's a horse head... It's a nebula!

Finding familiar patterns in cosmic objects

Stranger things: oddly named objects seen by ESO telescopes in the night sky

Chilly galactic wind surprises astronomers

First detection of cold, dense gas outflowing from Milky Way's centre

How old are the stars?

Listening to the tick tock of a chemical clock

Cosmic lighthouses

ESO Fellow Trystyn Berg on why he uses some of the most energetic known objects to probe the foggy parts of the Universe

Disentangling starlight

The story of how MUSE sees individual stars in other galaxies