11 April 2018
Revealing planet formation processes with SPHERE
...is alike. Installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), SPHERE or the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument is mainly tasked with detecting and studying new giant exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. However, the state-of-the...
02 July 2018
Baby planet in dusty disc finally caught on camera
... young star PDS 70. Not only that, but the data suggests that the planet’s atmosphere is cloudy. SPHERE or the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument is a powerful planet finder designed to take images directly...