04 February 2022
NASA’s real-life “Don’t Look Up” programme
... to include two additional observatories in South Africa and Chile. “An important part of planetary defence is finding asteroids... Observing Station in South Africa and El Sauce Observatory in Chile, enable ATLAS to observe the night sky when it is...
25 August 2017
Most detailed image ever of a star other than our Sun
..., a team of astronomers, led by Keiichi Ohnaka, of the Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile has now used ESO’s VLTI at the Paranal Observatory in Chile to map Antares’s surface and to measure the velocities of material in its atmosphere. “The...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
...Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – a device that looks like a machine straight out of... within it. “We used data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile to measure how fast the stars were moving in ESO 325-...
13 August 2020
Fastest star in the galaxy is found, and potentially its a “squeezar”
..., have been found by a team of European scientists using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Circling Sgr A* from a distance that is comparable to the size of our Solar System, is... begin operations in 2025 from its Cerro Armazones site in Chile.
18 January 2021
New study looks at how to harness energy from a black hole
... of light. Like Penrose, Luca Comisso, research scientist at Columbia University and Felipe Asenjo from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile, suggest that ergospheres are the place to harvest vast amounts of energy stored around these monstrous objects...
06 May 2020
Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth
...ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. They say this system could just be the tip ...can only be a black hole,” concludes Rivinius, who is based in Chile. Astronomers have spotted only a couple of dozen black holes in our galaxy...
