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...
07 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...
25 August 2016
Earth-sized planet found around our nearest neighbouring star
... convincing. Since then we have worked hard to get further observations off the ground with help from ESO and others. The recent Pale Red Dot campaign has been about two years in the planning...
31 August 2016
Record-breaking galaxy cluster discovered
.../submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique Northern Extended Millimeter Array (IRAM NOEMA), and ESO's Very Large Telescope. Speaking about the importance of this record-breaking discovery, study co-author Alexis...
22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
... and will be completed next year in time for the next observing period. Team member Robert Laing at ESO has high hopes for future ALMA Band 5 observations: “It's very exciting to see these first results from...
