11 March 2020
Ultra-hot exoplanet literally rains iron say astronomers
... of ESPRESSO made it a prime machine to study exoplanet atmospheres,” says Pedro Figueira, ESPRESSO instrument scientist at ESO in Chile. “What we have now is a whole new way to trace the climate of the most extreme exoplanets,” concludes Ehrenreich...
20 May 2020
Twisted feature could be the first direct evidence of a baby planet being born
... spot where a baby planet may be coming to existence. With the help of the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s VLT in Chile, Boccaletti and his team have now been able spot this revealing feature as a very bright yellow...
11 September 2020
New data suggests there is something missing from dark matter theories
... team followed up with additional spectroscopic data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and were able to identify dozens of multiply imaged, lensed, background galaxies; multiple images of the same distant...
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... quickly after the star was ripped apart,” says study author Thomas Wevers, an ESO Fellow in Santiago, Chile, who was at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, when he conducted the work. “We immediately pointed a suite of ground...
28 October 2020
Unexpected molecule found in Titan's atmosphere
... in Greenbelt, Maryland. Connor, who led the search using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile says when he realised he was looking at cyclopropenylidene, "my first thought was, ‘well, this is really unexpected.’” It was...
30 October 2020
It seems there might not be life on Venus after all, say two new studies
..... Their analysis was based on two different detections; one using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile and another using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope – the largest single-dish telescope that operates...
