Science news articles about 'la silla'

  • How like Earth are alien planets?

    ... 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 45 more planets in ...
  • A trio of super-Earths

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

    ... system is now being built for the HARPS planet-finder instrument on ESO's 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile, before being considered for future generations of instruments. ...
  • Pinning down the Milky Way's spin

    ... , attached to the 3.6-m ESO telescope at La Silla, 2400 m up in the mountains of the Chilean Atacama Desert. HARPS, or the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planetary Searcher, is ...
  • NASA satellite sees oldest-ever gamma-ray burst

    ... a 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile, a group led by Jochen Greiner at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, ...
  • A claret-colored cloud with a massive heart

    ... to the 2.2-m Max-Planck/ESO telescope at ESO's La Silla observatory site in Chile. Located at an altitude of 2400 metres in the arid Atacama Desert, this observatory sits under ...
  • A pool of distant galaxies -- the deepest ultraviolet image of the universe yet

    ... (WFI) attached to the 2.2 m MPG/ESO telescope at La Silla, in the framework of the GABODS survey. The newly released U-band image – the result of 40 hours of staring at the ...
  • Omega Centauri -- the glittering giant of the southern skies

    ... .2-metre diameter Max-Planck/ESO telescope, located at ESO's La Silla observatory, high up in the arid mountains of the southern Atacama Desert in Chile. Omega Centauri is about 150 light ...
  • Students discover unique planet

    ... in front of its star. The team then used the GROND instrument on the 2.2 m telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory to follow up the observations and find out more about the ...
  • Unprecedented 16-year-long study tracks stars orbiting Milky Way black hole

    ... in 1992 with the SHARP camera attached to ESO's 3.5-metre New Technology Telescope located at the La Silla observatory in Chile. More observations have subsequently been made since 2002 ...
  • Strong winds over the keel

    ... attached to the 2.2 m ESO/MPG telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, in Chile. The Carina Nebula is located about 7500 light-years away in the constellation of the same name ( ...
  • Strong winds over the keel

    ... exposures through six different filters from the Wide Field Imager (WFI), attached to the 2.2 m ESO/MPG telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, in Chile.
  • NASA's Fermi telescope sees most extreme gamma-ray blast yet

    ... -Infrared Detector, or GROND, on the 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile. In certain colors, the brightness of a distant object shows a characteristic drop-off ...
  • NGC 7293 - Into The Eye Of The Helix

    ... nebula has been obtained using the Wide Field Imager at ESO's La Silla Observatory. The image shows a rich background of distant galaxies, usually not seen in other images of this object. ...

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