10 December 2021
Extreme exoplanet changes the picture about massive stars as planet hosts
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have captured an... at the time. With upgrades planned for the VLT, and when ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) starts observations later this decade, astronomers...
22 July 2020
Astronomers capture the first ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of ...
20 May 2020
Twisted feature could be the first direct evidence of a baby planet being born
... telltale 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...
19 May 2021
Scientists unexpectedly find heavy metal vapour in comets throughout our Solar System, and beyond
...(become 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...
