18 May 2016
Multi-planet system hints at extra planet in its cometary belt
... either migrated or another undiscovered planet is present. The zoom-in portion of the image, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope, shows the location of the known planets in this system in relation to a graphical representation of the central star...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
... for exoplanet candidates orbiting Alpha Cen A. Their method involved outfitting ESO’s (European Southern Observatory's) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile with new capabilities to image exoplanets in the mid-infrared. Infrared light has longer...
April 2024
Rotation in the Universe
... incorporates data from not only Hubble, but also the FORS camera at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, together revealing M61 in unprecedented detail. Cosmology perspective If you are a student of cosmology, you will probably...
04 December 2019
Giant planet found orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
... layers of icy, giant planets like Neptune and Uranus Follow-up observations using the X-Shooter instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, led the team to discover that these elements were in a disc of gas swirling into the white dwarf...
02 July 2018
Baby planet in dusty disc finally caught on camera
... has been lacking. Now, using SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have finally captured the very first image of a protostar circling the very young star PDS 70. Not only that, but the data suggests...
