11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
..., who will supply a novel detector calibration device and a wavefront sensor and plans for a new coronagraph to be developed jointly by University of Liège (Belgium) and Uppsala University (Sweden) is also in the pipeline. Of course searching for...
11 April 2018
Revealing planet formation processes with SPHERE
... protostar masks the presence of any planets that have started to form. Rather handily, SPHERE is equipped with a coronagraph, and this blocks out the central region of the star allowing the rest of the disc to be imaged...
22 July 2020
Astronomers capture the first ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star
... in the Chilean Atacama desert. SPHERE blocks the bright light from the star using a device called coronagraph, allowing the much fainter planets to be seen. While older planets, such as those in our Solar System, are...
