04 December 2019
Giant planet found orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
... atmospheric layers of icy, giant planets like Neptune and Uranus Follow-up observations using the X-Shooter instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, led the team to discover that these elements were in a disc of gas swirling into the white dwarf...
02 July 2018
Baby planet in dusty disc finally caught on camera
...a scenario has been lacking. Now, using SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have finally captured the very first image of a protostar circling the very young star PDS 70. Not only that, but the data suggests...
