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...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
..., say the team. “Ultimately, a solution could come from revisiting Venus for in situ measurements..,” they add. ESO astronomer and ALMA European Operations Manager Leonardo Testi, who did not participate in the new study...
19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
...Astrophysique de Marseille in France, set to work on collecting further data on the system with the aid of ESO’s planet hunting spectrograph, ESPRESSO (Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations). The team, ...
04 July 2016
ROOM attends the UK National Astronomy Meeting
... planned for integration with the telescope (HARMONI and METIS). The UK community continues to be hugely successful in winning ESO time on various projects compared with the financial share it puts in and with renewed support for the...
