22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
...Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – a device that looks like a ... movement of stars within it. “We used data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile to measure how fast the stars were moving ...
30 July 2018
Test of Einstein’s general relativity theory successful after 26 years
... less than 20 billion kilometers the black hole in May of this year, which allowed astronomers to use ESO's Very Large Telescope's instruments (GRAVITY, SINFONI and NACO) to make new infrared observations. The international team, led by Reinhard...
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
... have announced an agreement that will see the Very Large Telescope (VLT) instrumentation in Chile being adapted to .... The new hardware includes an instrument module contracted to Kampf Telescope Optics (KTO), Munich, who will supply a novel detector ...
27 March 2019
Storm-plagued exoplanet revealed in detail with GRAVITY
... possible. The instrument is GRAVITY and it was born from the desire to observe very small details on faint objects. It sits on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) and represents a huge step forward in observing objects in visible light...
20 May 2020
Twisted feature could be the first direct evidence of a baby planet being born
... signs of a star system being born have been captured by observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) which has produced stunning new images of spiralling dust and gas around AB Aurigae, located...
13 August 2020
Fastest star in the galaxy is found, and potentially its a “squeezar”
... Sagittarius A* at speeds of 24, 000 kilometres per second, have been found by a team of European scientists using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Circling Sgr A* from a distance that is comparable to the size of our Solar System, is a small...
