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...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... (each available in several colours making a total of 30 fabrics) are squares based on Nyberg’s photos of the Andes Mountains in Chile, the Grand Canyon in the USA, the blue waters off the coast of the Bahamas and the...
May 2026
Satellite brightness and the mitigation challenge
... ethical flaw. When an operator manoeuvres a satellite to avoid visible passes over the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, for example, those passes don’t disappear. The brightness transfers to observers in South Africa, Indonesia or Australia...
16 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...
18 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...
