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...
29 November 2017
Deepest spectroscopic survey completed of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
... into the HUDF, with the help of MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have produced a groundbreaking dataset that has already resulted in 10 science papers which are being published...
06 December 2017
The next generation planet hunter is here!
... precision by looking at the minute wobbles in the host stars’ motion. Installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, ESPRESSO is the successor to ESO’s hugely successful HARPS instrument. HARPS, which stands for the High Accuracy...
12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
... is mounted on the National Science Foundation's 4-meter Blanco telescope, part of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a division of NOAO. Although DES was carried out primarily to understand the nature of dark energy, as the data...
17 January 2018
First inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster
... of Vela (The Salis). While observing the cluster with ESO’s MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers noticed that one particular star that is on its way to becoming a red giant, was being flung...
