10 December 2021
Extreme exoplanet changes the picture about massive stars as planet hosts
...Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument (SPHERE) mounted on ESO’s VLT in Chile, it is not the first time...the time. With upgrades planned for the VLT, and when ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) starts observations later this decade...
20 May 2020
Twisted feature could be the first direct evidence of a baby planet being born
... with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) which has produced stunning new images of ... even more detailed views of planets in the making when ESO finishes construction of its Extremely Large Telescope. With a whopping...
25 August 2017
Most detailed image ever of a star other than our Sun
... than our Sun has been constructed by astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). The star is... of the Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile has now used ESO’s VLTI at the Paranal Observatory in Chile to map Antares’s surface ...
21 November 2017
First interstellar asteroid looks nothing like expected
... it disappeared off again. One telescope to get a good look at `Oumuamua – an Hawaiian name meaning ‘scout’ – was ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Observations show that `Oumuamua varies dramatically in brightness by a factor of ten as it spins...
29 November 2017
Deepest spectroscopic survey completed of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
... years of research already conducted into the HUDF, with the help of MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have produced a groundbreaking dataset that has already resulted in 10 science papers...
07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
... material that was seen racing around near its event horizon at about 30 percent the speed of light by ESO’s GRAVITY instrument last year. It is estimated that the temperatures reached by this turbulent, spiralling belt of gas can...
