21 November 2017
First interstellar asteroid looks nothing like expected
... about the object before it disappeared off again. One telescope to get a good look at `Oumuamua – an Hawaiian name meaning ‘scout’ – was ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Observations show that `Oumuamua varies dramatically in brightness by a factor...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
..., the theory still stands the test of time. Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – a device that looks like a machine straight out of the movie The Matrix – and the NASA...
16 May 2018
Astronomers find stars forming just 250 million years after Big Bang
.... This discovery also represents the most distant galaxy ever observed by the observatories that studied it; ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) – an array that has already set the record for...
11 April 2018
Revealing planet formation processes with SPHERE
...is SPHERE and recent images show that like the planets themselves, no one disc is alike. Installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), SPHERE or the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument is mainly tasked with detecting and...
