2+ hour, 5+ min ago   (610+ words) “Worldwide, Paranal is the only place where you can do this type of observations because no other observatory in the world has four 8-metre telescopes that can act together as an interferometer,” says co-author Frank Eisenhauer, GRAVITY+ Principal Investigator and…...

2+ hour, 5+ min ago   (485+ words) Based on research by the GRAVITY collaboration Produced by ESO, the European Southern Observatory (eso.org) The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (631+ words) To resolve (44) Nysa’s shape, a team of astronomers used the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, and SHARK-VIS, an instrument by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics on the Large Binocular Telescope in the USA. Both instruments…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (585+ words) “To be certain that the companion is really there, we still need to observe it in one year on the other side of the star, but there is very little space left for doubt,” adds Montargès. The potential detection of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (560+ words) Astronomové konečně získali přesvědčivý důkaz, že Betelgeuse, slavná hvězda v souhvězdí Oriona, není sama. Pomocí dalekohledu VLT (Very Large Telescope) ESO pořídili dosud nejjasnější snímek objektu, který je pravděpodobně Betelgeuse B – hvězdy obíhající kolem Betelgeuse, což by mohlo vysvětlovat některé…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (585+ words) “To be certain that the companion is really there, we still need to observe it in one year on the other side of the star, but there is very little space left for doubt,” adds Montargès. The potential detection of…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (660+ words) This exosatellite or ‘exomoon’, a natural satellite outside our Solar System [1], is difficult to label, given the differences in this system compared to our own. Alice Zurlo, YEMS Director and collaborator on the study explains: “The satellite we report is…...

4+ week, 37+ min ago   (511+ words) Para mais detalhes, queira, por favor, consultar o respectivo comunicado de imprensa. Os membros dos meios de comunicação social podem solicitar uma versão deste vídeo sem texto sobreposto através do e-mail [email protected]. The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago   (208+ words) ESO.org Objev nového „exoměsíce“ přináší nové výzvy pro kosmickou terminologii | Zprávy ESO Pomocí dalekohledu VLT (Very Large Telescope) ESO objevili astronomové v jiné planetární soustavě objekt, který zpochybňuje dosavadní astronomické klasifikace. Tento objekt připomíná měsíc v tom, že obíhá…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (580+ words) Today’s Picture of the Week shows around a year and a half in the life of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The telescope’s construction saw a lot of progress and important milestones during this time. The…...