28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
Astronomers using ESO’s SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) could be about to give the fourth largest object in the ...
15 November 2017
Earth-mass temperate exoplanet found close by
... light-years from the Solar System by a team using ESO’s unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument. Known as Ross 128 b,...greater number with advancing technology. And when they are found, then ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be on hand to help...
06 December 2017
The next generation planet hunter is here!
...an international consortium as well as many different groups within ESO: engineers, astronomers and administration. They had to not ... Telescopes,” said instrument scientist Gaspare Lo Curto from ESO. Designed and built by a consortium of institutions ...
October 2026
Redefining the edge of the solar system
...passes through our own. Photo credits: 1I/’Oumuamua: ESO/M. Kornmesser; 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS: NASA/ESA...dance among forces, energies and trajectories. A striking panoramic shot of ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Paranal, in the Atacama Desert in Chile...
01 June 2020
Giant magnetic spots discovered on small super-hot stars
... Astronomical Observatory of Padua in Italy, used instruments on ESO telescopes, including VIMOS, FLAMES and FORS2, as well ... picture though,” says team member, David Jones, a former ESO Fellow now at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Spain...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
...observations has recently been discussed by Olivier Hainault, an ESO astronomer who has produced a comprehensive paper describing the interaction between ...constellations. His conclusions, put simply, are that ESO can deal with the problem but they will ...
