31 August 2016
Record-breaking galaxy cluster discovered
... Array (ALMA), the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique Northern Extended Millimeter Array (IRAM NOEMA), and ESO's Very Large Telescope. Speaking about the importance of this record-breaking discovery, study co-author Alexis Finoguenov of the...
10 May 2017
Australia announce a strategic partnership with ESO
... partner could achieve alone,” added Zeeuw. At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope and on Cerro Armazones, close to Paranal, ESO is building the 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). At its first light in 2024 the ELT will become “the...
22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
...had discovered the first three planets in the system in May of 2016. Now, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, Spitzer, has discovered the rest – bringing the total number of exoplanets in TRAPPIST-1 up to seven. The project team...
11 September 2020
New data suggests there is something missing from dark matter theories
... their findings, the team followed up with additional spectroscopic data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and were able to identify dozens of multiply imaged, lensed, background galaxies; multiple images...
17 December 2021
New study shows that 99.9% of the mass at the centre of our galaxy is due to black hole
... Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS) at Gemini North and the SINFONI instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, the team found that the stars were following this predicted precessional motion. Whats more, from...
28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
Astronomers using ESO’s SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) could be about to give the fourth... the study. With advances in numerical computation, and more powerful telescopes, scientists are now more able to rewind the clock and piece...
