20 April 2017
ALMA research team captures first clear image of accretion disk around a star
... up the material that would eventually turn into planets. The image captured by the ALMA radio telescope in Chile is the first clear image of an accretion disk – earlier technology was not able to obtain clear images. ALMA...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... a complete day and night interval from Cerro Pachón, northern Chile, at summer solstice (left) and winter solstice (right). ...as shown in Table 2, but let us take Cerro Pachón, in Chile, as a reference case. The Vera C Rubin Observatory houses the...
19 August 2015
A sky full of stars: IC 4651 cluster as seen from La Silla in Chile
... on YouTube, you can see an amazing view of the IC 4651 open star cluster, as captured by the La Silla Observatory in Chile (which is part of the European Southern Observatory). You can watch the dramatic video here...
27 January 2016
Interaction between protoplanetary disks and planets confirmed by astronomers using ALMA
A team of astronomers from Chile have observed a disk that surrounds a young star less massive than the Sun, to confirm theories about ...
30 July 2018
Test of Einstein’s general relativity theory successful after 26 years
After 26 years of observation, ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile has revealed the effects predicted by Einstein’s general relativity theory on a star passing near the supermassive black ...
15 March 2019
Major comet impact burned Earth 13,000 years ago
... in sedimentary rocks at a well-known paleontological and archaeological site known as Pilauco Bajo, in the city of Osorno in Southern Chile, helps bolster the idea that not only did a comet strike Earth in the Younger Dryas period...
