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...
09 August 2019
Is the Milky Way's black hole waking up?
... at near-infrared wavelengths. Using data collected from 13, 000 measurements over 130 nights by Keck and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the team have shown that Sgr A* has doubled in brightness compared with past values; activity...
10 December 2021
Extreme exoplanet changes the picture about massive stars as planet hosts
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have captured an ...With upgrades planned for the VLT, and when ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) starts observations later this decade, astronomers may be able...
22 July 2020
Astronomers capture the first ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the ...Further observations of this system, including with the future ESO Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), will enable astronomers to test whether these planets formed at...
27 March 2017
Most massive and 'purest' brown dwarf found
... 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 new discovery adds one more...
29 November 2017
Deepest spectroscopic survey completed of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
...of research already conducted into the HUDF, with the help of MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have produced a groundbreaking dataset that has already resulted in 10 science papers which are...
