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...
04 August 2017
Most accurate measurement of Universe's dark matter revealed by DES survey
... eye on the sky is attached to the 4-meter Victor M. Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Nonetheless you can’t study how structures evolve unless you know how they looked in the first...
02 October 2017
New molecule discovery may have implications for chemistry on Earth
... with the ROSINA instrument on ESA’s Rosetta mission and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, a team of astronomers have found faint traces of the chemical compound on the famous comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko...
03 November 2017
Dust belt hints at more planets around our nearest star
.... The belt, which was spotted by the team using the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile, is thought to have a total mass of about one hundredth of the Earth’s mass and is as cold as that of the Kuiper...
15 November 2017
Earth-mass temperate exoplanet found close by
...Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument, that is attached to ESO’s 3.6 metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, and although the circumstances look favourable, scientists involved in the project are uncertain as to whether the...
