07 December 2016
Dark matter not as clumpy as previously thought
...the nature of dark matter have used ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile to observe five patches ... missions such as the Euclid satellite and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will allow us to repeat these measurements and better understand what...
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...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
... to search for exoplanet candidates 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...
11 September 2020
New data suggests there is something missing from dark matter theories
... findings, the 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...
