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...
18 November 2020
Astronomers want to revive idea for ‘Ultimately Large Telescope’ on the Moon
... wonder what would follow the “Extremely Large Telescope”, an observatory with a 39 metre-diameter mirror being built in Chile. It turns out, a decade ago, NASA had already thought up the “Ultimately Large Telescope,” - a sizeable liquid mirror...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
... orbiting Alpha Cen A. Their method involved outfitting ESO’s (European Southern Observatory's) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile with new capabilities to image exoplanets in the mid-infrared. Infrared light has longer wavelengths than visible...
