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...
