15 November 2017
Earth-mass temperate exoplanet found close by
... times more irradiation than the Earth. Ross 128b was found with the help of ESO’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument, that is attached to ESO’s 3.6 metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, and although the...
06 December 2017
The next generation planet hunter is here!
..., ESPRESSO is the successor to ESO’s hugely successful HARPS instrument. HARPS, which stands for the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher is one of the most successful ground-based planet finders of its time and it measures small changes...
19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
...lights years (10.5 parsecs) away. A few years ago, scientists using HARPS (the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) - an instrument dedicated to the discovery of extrasolar planets and the now retired Spitzer Space telescope, discovered LHS...
14 November 2018
Super-Earth exoplanet found around closest single star to the Sun
...Red Dot and CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with ...velocity has slowed by the walking pace of a human – a tiny 3.5 kilometres an hour – but ESO’s planet-hunting HARPS instrument is one of them and its unprecedented accuracy...
23 June 2017
Will our next nearest exoplanet be found soon?
.... Photometric observations of the stars have already begun by the scientific team using ESO’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) and other instruments across the globe and spectrographic observations started two days ago...
