23 June 2017
Will our next nearest exoplanet be found soon?
... the next closet habitable exoplanet to us. If additional planets are indeed discovered around these stars, it is hoped that ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be able to directly image them and characterise their atmospheres, when it comes...
30 August 2017
Star formation history of the Universe revealed
...their surroundings,” said Martin Zwaan, an astronomer at ESO, who contributed to the paper recently submitted to ...is concerned Rob Ivison, a co-author on the paper and ESO’s Director for Science explains the significance of this recent discovery;...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
...such as the exploration of the Moon. Australia and ESO on the other hand announced their own strategic partnership ...scheduled for lift-off in October. Known as BepiColombo, the joint ESO and JAXA mission is made up of two spacecraft, the Mercury ...
09 May 2018
First confirmed carbon-rich asteroid found in Kuiper Belt
...EW95, made by an international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, helps strengthen theories about the ...confirmed to this level of quality,” comments Olivier Hainaut, an ESO astronomer who was not part of the team. “The discovery ...
10 April 2019
Ring of fire around black hole revealed for first time
... Commissioner Carlos Moedas, who announced the discovery for ESO said: “The history of science will be spilt...their existence, has yielded nothing concrete so far. Last year ESO’s GRAVITY instrument observed a ring of extremely fast moving material ...
25 January 2021
Unique six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form
... CHEOPS satellite, alongside the ground-based ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s VLT and the NGTS and SPECULOOS to have a...exist in or very close to this zone. In addition, when ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) begins operating later this decade it will...
