17 October 2018
Cosmic titan found lurking in the early Universe
.... “This is the first time that such a large structure has been identified at such a high redshift,”...for the Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph this instrument attached to ESO’s Very large Telescope (VLT), records one long stripe (spectrum) for ...
20 May 2020
Twisted feature could be the first direct evidence of a baby planet being born
... signs of a star system being born have been captured by observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) which has produced stunning new images of spiralling dust and gas around AB Aurigae, located in the...
19 May 2021
Scientists unexpectedly find heavy metal vapour in comets throughout our Solar System, and beyond
...(become gaseous) at low temperatures. However, in a new study by a Belgian team using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), the data has shown traces of iron and nickel in the atmospheres of comets at distances of more...
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...
30 July 2018
Test of Einstein’s general relativity theory successful after 26 years
... was less than 20 billion kilometers the black hole in May of this year, which allowed astronomers to use ESO's Very Large Telescope's instruments (GRAVITY, SINFONI and NACO) to make new infrared observations. The international team, led by Reinhard...
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 Radial...
