22 July 2020
Astronomers capture the first ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star
... around a Sun-like star. ESO’s VLT was also the first telescope to directly image an exoplanet, back in 2004, when it captured ...system, including with the future ESO Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), will enable astronomers to test whether these...
19 May 2016
Astronomers find a group of stars dying too early
.... With HERMES, astronomers in Australia have the chance to observe globular clusters without the need for using telescopes overseas, not only that, but HERMES is capable of analysing the chemical composition of up to 400 stars at a time. "This...
27 February 2017
Thirty years in the making - researchers show SN1987A in all of its glory
.... From 1999 until 2013, data from the Chandra telescope showed an expanding ring of X-ray emission that had...compact object formed as the centre of the star collapsed, however no telescope has yet to find any evidence for either of these objects yet....
27 March 2017
Most massive and 'purest' brown dwarf found
... in the constellation 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...
01 September 2017
TRAPPIST-1 planets could contain substantial amounts of water
... to the idea that this trio of exoplanets could indeed be habitable. Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers followed up the initial discovery, with observations to study that amount the amount of ultraviolet...
30 August 2018
Unstoppable monster galaxy puzzles and enlightens astronomers
... the galaxy. COSMOS-AzTEC-1 was first discovered with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), and later with the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT). However with additional data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...
