Science news articles about 'eso la silla'

  • A trio of super-Earths

    ... -solar planets. Using the HARPS instrument at the ESO La Silla Observatory, they have found a triple system of super- ... 's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla, we can now discover smaller planets, with masses ...
  • The thousand-ruby galaxy

    ... was captured by the Wide Field Imager at ESO's La Silla Observatory, located high in the dry ... , atop the mountains of the Atacama Desert, ESO's La Silla enjoys some of the clearest and darkest skies on ...
  • A fine-tooth comb to measure the accelerating universe

    ... astronomy and quantum optics, in a collaboration between researchers at ESO and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. ... finder instrument on ESO's 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile, before ...
  • The double firing burst

    ... the Universe, it could have been seen briefly with the unaided eye (ESO 08/08). In a paper to appear in the 11 September issue ... .6-m REM telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory (ESO 26/07). TORTORA's ...
  • Pinning down the Milky Way's spin

    ... than previously thought. A remarkable result from the most successful ESO instrument HARPS, shows that a much debated, ... , attached to the 3.6-m ESO telescope at La Silla, 2400 m up in the mountains of ...
  • A claret-colored cloud with a massive heart

    ... was obtained with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) camera attached to the 2.2-m Max-Planck/ESO telescope at ESO's La Silla observatory site in Chile. Located at an altitude of ...
  • A pool of distant galaxies -- the deepest ultraviolet image of the universe yet

    ... and evolution of galaxies. The new image released by ESO combines data obtained with the VIMOS instrument in the ... to the 2.2 m MPG/ESO telescope at La Silla, in the framework of the GABODS survey. The ...

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