... of Vela (The Salis). While observing the cluster with ESO’s MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers noticed that one particular star that is on its way to becoming a red giant, was being flung...
... pitch-black canvas of the night sky, said Thomas Puzia from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a co-author of the recent paper detailing the research. “Not only is 2004 EW95 moving, it’s also very...
... one square kilometre (or 1 million square metres). For comparison, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, which is already revolutionising areas of astronomy, has around 66 operational antennas and a total collecting area...
... the Subaru 8-meter telescope in Hawaii and later confirmed using the Magellan telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Finding odd-ball ice worlds appears to have become something of a successful sideline for Sheppard and his...
... working on the Gemini Planet Imager, or GPI, a sensitive infrared detector mounted on the 8-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile, suggest that Jupiter’s orbit is not unusual after all but is a favoured location for many other Jupiter...
Somewhere in the skies above the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Chile, China's space station Tiangong-2 is due to fall back to Earth any minute now, if it hasn’t already. With a name ...