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 ...
14 December 2016
Astronomers find a ring of new stars around the LMC
..., whose lead author on the research paper is C. Moni Bidin from the Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile, are young, (10 - 15 Myr), main sequence stars, that have formed in a ring-like configuration around the outskirts...
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
... and Breakthrough Initiatives have announced an agreement that will see the Very Large Telescope (VLT) instrumentation in Chile being adapted to search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri. The Alpha Centauri system...
24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
... team, whose lead author on the research paper is Franz E. Bauer from the Instituto de Astrofísica in Santiago, Chile, specify that the unique multi-wavelength properties of this transient event, known as CDF-S XT1 – which includes...
