17 October 2018
Cosmic titan found lurking in the early Universe
...supercluster. “This is the first time that such a large structure has been identified at such a high redshift,”...Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph this instrument attached to ESO’s Very large Telescope (VLT), records one long stripe (spectrum) for each...
25 August 2017
Most detailed image ever of a star other than our Sun
...Sun has been constructed by astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). The star is the red supergiant ... In the case of Antares it is taken to mean the large-scale movement of matter which transfers energy from the core to ...
11 April 2018
Revealing planet formation processes with SPHERE
...is SPHERE and recent images show that like the planets themselves, no one disc 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...
31 October 2018
Black hole status of the Milky Way centre confirmed with striking new data
... power from four telescopes, that are drawn together in one instrument to create a virtual super-telescope 130 metres in ... to originate from magnetic interactions in the very hot gas orbiting very close to SgrA*, also exactly matches theoretical...
23 August 2019
Energetic eruption helps astronomers peer deep within Jupiter's atmosphere
... and infrared images made with other telescopes at approximately the same time. “These ALMA maps at millimetre wavelengths complement the maps made with the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array in centimetre wavelengths,” said Bryan Butler...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... to that of Neptune from the Sun. Those observations were made with the SPHERE instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) and, as larger facilities come online over the next decade, direct imaging is expected to provide insights...
