15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
... orbiting Alpha Cen A. Their method involved outfitting ESO’s (European Southern Observatory's) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile with new capabilities to image exoplanets in the mid-infrared. Infrared light has longer wavelengths than visible...
07 April 2021
Astronomers find a rare pair of double quasars in the early Universe
... observatory consisting of two telescopes, Gemini North and Gemini South, located at two separate sites in Hawaii and Chile respectively. Its spectrograph provided the team with independent measurements of the distance to the quasars, their chemical...
14 July 2021
Phosphine gas on Venus points to volcanism not life, study says
... Maxwell Telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile, the pair say that phosphides, bound in metals such as iron, are finding their way to the surface...
23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
..., a different team, this time led by Myriam Benisty, a researcher at the University of Grenoble, France, and at the University of Chile, have been able to hone in and see a clear separation. “Our work presents a clear detection of a disc in which...
10 December 2021
Extreme exoplanet changes the picture about massive stars as planet hosts
... and colleagues with the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument (SPHERE) mounted on ESO’s VLT in Chile, it is not the first time that this extraordinary world has been spotted. While searching through archival...
07 November 2024
Ground segment specialist Leaf Space boosts leadership team
... fast - in the last year we activated eight new sites worldwide, including the establishment of our own teleports in Chile, Mexico and Iceland. “We will soon get to a global coverage with more than 30 active ground stations, also...
