03 June 2019
CEN and CENELEC to hold workshop on standards in space applications
... 2020. In order to provide input to the discussion, CEN and CENELEC, two of the official European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), are organising the workshop “From space to Earth and back: how standards support space applications for...
11 September 2020
New data suggests there is something missing from dark matter theories
The term dark matter has been bandied about for decades now and while many studies are devoted to understanding more about this elusive substance, it is fair to say, that not a great deal is really known about it. What understanding there is about ...
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
... overwhelm the relatively dim and tiny planets. Step forward ESO’s VLT. Under a deal announced by Pete Worden, ...Foundation and Executive Director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, along with ESO’s Director General Tim de Zeeuw, funds will be made ...
22 July 2020
Astronomers capture the first ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star
...thanks to the high performance of the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s VLT in the Chilean Atacama desert. SPHERE blocks the ... Further observations of this system, including with the future ESO Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), will enable astronomers to test...
30 July 2018
Test of Einstein’s general relativity theory successful after 26 years
... hole in May of this year, which allowed astronomers to use ESO's Very Large Telescope's instruments (GRAVITY, SINFONI and NACO) to... theories. The results, a culmination of 26 years of ESO observations of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, showed...
11 April 2018
Revealing planet formation processes with SPHERE
... are is SPHERE and recent images show that like the planets themselves, no one disc is alike. Installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), SPHERE or the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument is mainly tasked...
