Science news articles about 'la silla observatory'

  • 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-Earths ... on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla, we can now discover smaller planets, ...
  • The thousand-ruby galaxy

    ... Planck Society/ESO telescope, sited at the La Silla observatory in Chile. Located nearly 2400 m ... , atop the mountains of the Atacama Desert, ESO's La Silla enjoys some of the clearest and darkest skies ...
  • The double firing burst

    ... the 0.6-m REM telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory (ESO 26/07). TORTORA's ... Grigory Beskin of Russia's Special Astrophysical Observatory. The data collected simultaneously by TORTORA and the Swift ...
  • A claret-colored cloud with a massive heart

    ... -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 some of the clearest and darkest skies ...
  • Omega Centauri -- the glittering giant of the southern skies

    ... ), mounted on the 2.2-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. ...
  • Students discover unique planet

    ... 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 star and the planet ...
  • Unprecedented 16-year-long study tracks stars orbiting Milky Way black hole

    ... 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 using ...
  • Strong winds over the keel

    ... 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 (Carina; the ...
  • Strong winds over the keel

    ... 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.
  • NGC 7293 - Into The Eye Of The Helix

    ... 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. read more
  • Lightest exoplanet yet discovered

    ... says co-author Xavier Bonfils from Grenoble Observatory. Being so close to its host star, the planet is ... obtained with the HARPS spectrograph at ESO's La Silla Observatory and announced two years ago ...
  • Double engine for a nebula

    ... ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the 2400-metre-high La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image shows beautifully the extended nebula of gas and dust that reflects the light from the star. ...
  • NGC 4945: The Milky Way's not-so-distant cousin

    ... at the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. NGC 4945 appears cigar-shaped from our perspective on Earth, but the galaxy is actually a disc many times ...
  • First solid evidence for a rocky exoplanet

    ... attached to the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. "Even though HARPS is certainly unbeaten when it comes to detecting small exoplanets, the measurements of ...
  • The trilogy is complete -- GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3

    ... to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. This 67-million-pixel camera has already created several of ESO's iconic pictures. The intriguing object ...

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