27 March 2017
Most massive and 'purest' brown dwarf found
... of Pisces, SDSS J0104+1535 was spotted using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and has been classified as an L type ultra-subdwarf according to a scheme very recently established by Dr Zhang. The new discovery adds one...
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 ... observations of this system, including with the future ESO Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), will enable astronomers to test whether these planets formed...
16 May 2018
Astronomers find stars forming just 250 million years after Big Bang
.... 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 already set the record...
31 October 2018
Black hole status of the Milky Way centre confirmed with striking new data
... power from four telescopes, that are drawn together in one instrument to create a virtual super-telescope 130 metres in ... to originate from magnetic interactions in the very hot gas orbiting very close to SgrA*, also exactly matches theoretical...
11 September 2020
New data suggests there is something missing from dark matter theories
.... To check their findings, the team followed up with additional spectroscopic data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and were able to identify dozens of multiply imaged, lensed, background galaxies; multiple...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
... to search for exoplanet candidates orbiting Alpha Cen A. Their method involved outfitting ESO’s (European Southern Observatory's) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile with new capabilities to image exoplanets in the mid-infrared. Infrared light has...
