11 March 2020
Ultra-hot exoplanet literally rains iron say astronomers
...-dispersion spectroscopy – the study of the absorption and emission of light and other radiation by matter – using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The authors, whose work was just published in Nature and was led by David Ehrenreich at Observatoire...
09 August 2017
Stars orbiting Sgr A* hint at relativistic effects
... physics, especially Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Now, with the help of S2 again and observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), a team of German and Czech astronomers have found suggestions that a small change in the motion...
17 October 2018
Cosmic titan found lurking in the early Universe
.... “This is the first time that such a large structure has been identified at such a high redshift,”... the Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph this instrument attached to ESO’s Very large Telescope (VLT), records one long stripe (spectrum) for each object...
20 May 2020
Twisted feature could be the first direct evidence of a baby planet being born
... signs of a star system being born have been captured by observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) which has produced stunning new images of spiralling dust and gas around AB Aurigae, located in the...
19 May 2021
Scientists unexpectedly find heavy metal vapour in comets throughout our Solar System, and beyond
... gaseous) at low temperatures. However, in a new study by a Belgian team using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), the data has shown traces of iron and nickel in the atmospheres of comets at distances of more than...
06 December 2017
The next generation planet hunter is here!
... precision by looking at the minute wobbles in the host stars’ motion. Installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, ESPRESSO is the successor to ESO’s hugely successful HARPS instrument. HARPS, which stands for the High Accuracy Radial...
