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...
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...
