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...
22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
... liquid water. The exoplanet system, named after the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile, is located in the Aquarius constellation, which is about 40 light years (235 trillion miles) away from Earth. TRAPPIST...
19 May 2017
Exoplanets galore and possibly the next Trappist-1 system?
... might be more. The instrument in question is the HARPS spectrograph located on the ESO 3.6 metre telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile and both teams utilised the HARPS Guaranteed Time Observation list to search for the exoplanets. HARPS...
