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...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... nearest exoplanet to us orbiting our nearest star, Proxima B, speculating that it might be a water-world similar to our own, ESO sent a Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars (ExoMars), but lost sight of its lander, JUNO arrived at Jupiter and...
08 March 2017
The most distant galaxy yet observed by ALMA gives insight into first stars
... shed light on how quickly the dust in A2744_YD4 formed,” explains Richard Ellis, a co-author of the study from ESO and University College London. “Remarkably, the required time is only about 200 million years — so we are witnessing...
10 April 2017
Super-Jupiter mass planet found in the galactic bulge
... on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), and the VST survey telescope located at at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, its discovery is unlikely to be invalidated. All telescopes were observing the event as part of the “Campaign...
