11 March 2020
Ultra-hot exoplanet literally rains iron say astronomers
...emission of light and other radiation by matter – using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The authors, whose ...study exoplanet atmospheres,” says Pedro Figueira, ESPRESSO instrument scientist at ESO in Chile. “What we have now is a whole new way...
19 May 2021
Scientists unexpectedly find heavy metal vapour in comets throughout our Solar System, and beyond
... Belgian team using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), the data has shown traces of iron and nickel ...the Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) on ESO’s upcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — will allow...
07 December 2016
Dark matter not as clumpy as previously thought
Scientists studying the nature of dark matter have used ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile to observe five patches of the sky containing around 15 million galaxies and ...
09 August 2017
Stars orbiting Sgr A* hint at relativistic effects
... gravitational physics, especially Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Now, with the help of S2 again and observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), a team of German and Czech astronomers have found suggestions that a small change...
17 October 2018
Cosmic titan found lurking in the early Universe
..., again with the help of VIMOS. Short for the Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph this instrument attached to ESO’s Very large Telescope (VLT), records one long stripe (spectrum) for each object to reveal its composition...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
...Wagner at the University of Arizona 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...
