20 May 2020
Twisted feature could be the first direct evidence of a baby planet being born
...of them will grow big enough for their gravity to shape them into spheres, spawning the creation of a planet, dwarf planet or large moon....may be coming to existence. With the help of the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s VLT in Chile, Boccaletti and his team...
28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
.... If accepted, Hygiea would be anointed with a new classification and a new title. “Thanks to the unique capability of the SPHERE instrument on the VLT, which is one of the most powerful imaging systems in the world, we could resolve Hygiea’s shape...
22 July 2020
Astronomers capture the first ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star
...to the high performance of the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s VLT in the Chilean Atacama desert. SPHERE blocks the bright light from the...the same system. Bohn concludes: “The possibility that future instruments, such as those available on the ELT, will be...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... the Sun. Those observations were made with the SPHERE instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) and...funded outside the usual agency programmes: preliminary work and the instrument study have been funded through a grant from the European ...
