{"id":8380,"date":"2025-10-31T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:24:13","slug":"astronomers-witness-newborn-planet-sculpting-the-dust-around-it-eso-press-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/astronomers-witness-newborn-planet-sculpting-the-dust-around-it-eso-press-release-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New image captures spooky bat signal in the sky &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory\u2019s (ESO\u2019s) Paranal site in Chile, right in time for Halloween. Thanks to its wide field of view, the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) was able to capture this large cloud of cosmic gas and dust, whose mesmerising appearance resembles the silhouette of a bat &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2518\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1270\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/eso2518-ENG.png\" alt=\"This image shows a cloud of gas and dust, shaped like a cosmic bat. The image was obtained mostly in visible light with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The intense red glow comes from hydrogen atoms ionised by the intense radiation of young stars within the cloud. The image also includes additional infrared data captured by ESO\u2019s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), also at Paranal. The most prominent clouds here are RCW 94, which represents the right wing of the bat, and RCW 95, which forms the body, while the other parts of the bat have no official designation - Credit: ESO\/VPHAS+ team\/VVV team\" class=\"wp-image-8385\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This image shows a cloud of gas and dust, shaped like a cosmic bat. The image was obtained mostly in visible light with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The intense red glow comes from hydrogen atoms ionised by the intense radiation of young stars within the cloud. The image also includes additional infrared data captured by ESO\u2019s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), also at Paranal. The most prominent clouds here are RCW 94, which represents the right wing of the bat, and RCW 95, which forms the body, while the other parts of the bat have no official designation &#8211; Credit: ESO\/VPHAS+ team\/VVV team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory\u2019s (ESO\u2019s) Paranal site in Chile, right in time for Halloween. Thanks to its wide field of view, the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) was able to capture this large cloud of cosmic gas and dust, whose mesmerising appearance resembles the silhouette of a bat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[671,390,670,365],"class_list":["post-8380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-bat","tag-eso-2","tag-halloween-2","tag-vlt"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/eso2518-ENG.png",1270,704,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/eso2518-ENG.png",150,83,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/eso2518-ENG.png",300,166,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/eso2518-ENG.png",768,426,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/eso2518-ENG.png",1024,568,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/eso2518-ENG.png",1270,704,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/eso2518-ENG.png",1270,704,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>A spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory\u2019s (ESO\u2019s) Paranal site in Chile, right in time for Halloween. Thanks to its wide field of view, the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) was able to capture this large cloud of cosmic gas and dust, whose mesmerising appearance resembles the silhouette of a bat &#8211; Read the full story on: This image shows a cloud of gas and dust, shaped like a cosmic bat. The image was obtained mostly in visible light with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The intense red glow&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8389,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions\/8389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}