Science news articles about 'european southern observatory'

  • Europeans find 32 new planets outside solar system

    European astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory ... where life could develop. Scientists using the European Southern Observatory telescope didn't find ...
  • The Antennae Galaxies move closer

    ... galaxy evolution. An international group of scientists led by Ivo Saviane from the European Southern Observatory has used Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to ...
  • Storn winds blow in Jupiter's Little Red Spot

    ... spacecraft, which flew past Jupiter in February 2007; the Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth; and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, perched on an Atacama ...
  • Close-up of a dying heavyweight

    A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn and European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching near Munich have for the first ...
  • How like Earth are alien planets?

    ... researchers on the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) survey based at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, have announced the discovery of ...
  • Astronomers find tiny planet orbiting tiny star

    ... angular resolution adaptive optics images with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. These images confirm that the planetary host is either a brown dwarf or a ...
  • One in Three Stars May Have "Super"-Earths [News]

    ... results come from the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) instrument at the European Southern Observatory on La Silla mountain in Chile, which looks for tiny changes in the color of ...
  • A fine-tooth comb to measure the accelerating universe

    ... future European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which is being designed by ESO, the European Southern Observatory. These new spectrographs will need to be calibrated with even more accurate 'rulers ...
  • NASA satellite sees oldest-ever gamma-ray burst

    ... unknown X-ray source. Astronomers on the ground followed up as well. Using a 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, a group led by Jochen Greiner ...
  • Powerful nearby supernova caught by web

    ... to confirm this object was a supernova. Clues in a spectrum from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) led the team to search through data from 18 different ...
  • A 'wild cousin' emerges from family tree of exploding stars

    ... were unable to verify it as a supernova. But recently acquired data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile prompted further investigation. After searching archival ...
  • Next-generation adaptive optics produces sharper Jupiter images

    ... ever taken from the ground, according to astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The series of 265 snapshots taken with the help of a ...
  • Splashy portrait helps explain how stars form

    ... and X-ray light from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope, and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton orbiting X-Ray telescope, ...
  • What's inside a black hole?

    ... from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics used two telescopes operated by the European Southern Observatory in Chile to watch stars as they circled the centre of the Milky Way. The ...
  • NGC 2264 - The Cosmic Christmas Tree Star Cluster Gets A New Image

    The festive season has arrived for astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the form of this dramatic new image. It shows the swirling gas around the region known as NGC 2264 — an ...

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