August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... star systems. Soon after the announcement, a group using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile detected a planet the size of Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri, the small red dwarf star in the nearby...
15 November 2015
Largest, most detailed image of space created by German astronomers.
... half a decade of research, and combines 268 views of the galaxy captured nightly by telescopes in the Atacama Desert (Chile). Over 50,000 new variable objects were discovered during that time, and all of them can now...
17 January 2016
Does a second black hole lurk near the centre of the Milky Way?
..., it will be the first of its kind to be detected. Using the Nobeyama 45-m Telescope in Japan and the ASTE Telescope in Chile, a team led by Tomoharu Oka, a professor at Keio University in Japan used both radio telescopes to observe this mysterious...
18 May 2016
Multi-planet system hints at extra planet in its cometary belt
... edge of this disk for the first time," explains Mark Booth from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and lead author of the study. "By studying the interactions between the planets and the disk, this...
22 August 2016
Massive Young Star Discovered
... continue to observe the star and the surrounding region with the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile, in hopes of discovering potential companion stars and in order to learn more about this massive youngster in our galaxy...
07 December 2016
Dark matter not as clumpy as previously thought
Scientists studying the nature of dark matter have used ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile to observe five patches of the sky containing around 15 million galaxies and now suggest that the elusive ...
