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...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
...from SOFIA are shown as streamlines over a composite image of Centaurus A taken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), Chandra X-Ray observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope. The observed differences between...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6). Astronomers tell us that the observable universe has between 100 and 200...
