20 April 2017
ALMA research team captures first clear image of accretion disk around a star
... comparison. (c) An accretion disk model that can reproduce the observed dust emission in the disk. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Lee et al. Accretion disks are most likely made of silicate, iron, and other interstellar matter...
19 May 2017
Exoplanets galore and possibly the next Trappist-1 system?
... system, with hints that there might be more. The instrument in question is the HARPS spectrograph located on the ESO 3.6 metre telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile and both teams utilised the HARPS Guaranteed Time Observation list...
17 January 2018
First inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster
... heart of this discovery is located in the southern constellation of Vela (The Salis). While observing the cluster with ESO’s MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers noticed that one particular star that is on its...
16 May 2018
Astronomers find stars forming just 250 million years after Big Bang
... research. This discovery also represents the most distant galaxy ever observed by the observatories that studied it; ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) – an array that has...
02 July 2018
Baby planet in dusty disc finally caught on camera
... many times, a confirmed image of such a scenario has been lacking. Now, using SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have finally captured the very first image of a protostar circling the very...
31 October 2018
Black hole status of the Milky Way centre confirmed with striking new data
... centre of our galaxy, capturing concrete evidence of its existence is tough. But now thanks to new data from ESO’s GRAVITY instrument, a ring of extremely fast moving material has been spotted racing around near its event...
