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...
09 May 2018
First confirmed carbon-rich asteroid found in Kuiper Belt
... pitch-black canvas of the night sky, said Thomas Puzia from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a co-author of the recent paper detailing the research. “Not only is 2004 EW95 moving, it’s also very...
16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
... one square kilometre (or 1 million square metres). For comparison, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, which is already revolutionising areas of astronomy, has around 66 operational antennas and a total collecting area...
27 February 2019
FarFarOut beats FarOut as most distant Solar System body ever seen
... the Subaru 8-meter telescope in Hawaii and later confirmed using the Magellan telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Finding odd-ball ice worlds appears to have become something of a successful sideline for Sheppard and his...
17 June 2019
Filling in the gaps of Jupiter-like planet formation
... working on the Gemini Planet Imager, or GPI, a sensitive infrared detector mounted on the 8-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile, suggest that Jupiter’s orbit is not unusual after all but is a favoured location for many other Jupiter...
