23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
...of planet and satellite formation, says Stefano Facchini, a ESO Research Fellow also involved in the research. The same ...look at the system, the team will have to wait until ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which is currently under construction ...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... 3He problem. About the author Dr Lizette Guzman-Ramirez is a post-doctoral researcher in astrophysics, a European Southern Observatory (ESO) Fellow at Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands and a member of the ALMA Arc node (Allegro). Her research...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... similar to that of Neptune from the Sun. Those observations were made with the SPHERE instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) and, as larger facilities come online over the next decade, direct imaging...
May 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
... opposite of good quality research according their definition. The MASCARA (Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA) station at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile achieved first light in July 2017. This new facility will seek out transiting...
06 December 2015
Massive baby galaxies nestled in dark matter filaments found by ALMA
... not one. Right: the same region photographed in visible light by the Subaru Telescope. Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NAOJ, H. Umehata (The University of Tokyo) Using the much improved sensitivity and resolution of the...
18 August 2016
Space Rebel Niku Baffles Astronomers
..., with a star-like Sun in the distance. Neptune’s orbit is shown as a small ellipse around the Sun. Credit: ESO/Tomruen/nagualdesign According to Konstantin Batyagin, the Caltech astronomer who announced the possible existence of Planet Nine...
