VLT

Astronomers report two new space oddities 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 15, 2020
Death by spaghettification and a stellar peacock.

By David Aragorn
Three gas clouds nearly grazed the edge of the Milky Way’s black hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 2, 2018
The observations confirm that the supermassive object really is a black hole

By David Aragorn
First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet Caught with ESO’s VLT 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 4, 2018
SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has captured the first confirmed image of a planet caught in the act of forming in the dusty disc surrounding a young star. The young planet is carving a path through the primordial disc of gas and dust around the very young star PDS 70. The data suggest that the planet’s atmosphere is cloudy.

By David Aragorn
Ancient, Exiled Asteroid Discovered Beyond Neptune 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2018
Astronomers have spotted a carbon-rich asteroid in the icy region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt — the first such asteroid ever found exiled from the inner solar system.

By David Aragorn
Mysterious isolated object investigated by astronomers 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 27, 2018
An international team of astronomers led by Philippe Delorme of the Grenoble Alpes University in France has recently investigated a mysterious object designated CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9 (CFBDSIR 2149-0403 for short) in order to reveal its true nature.

By David Aragorn
A skull-shaped asteroid will approach Earth again in 2018 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 21, 2017
On Oct. 10, 2015, astronomers in Hawaii made a spooky discovery: a giant asteroid between 625 and 700 meters zipping through space, that at certain angles looks uncannily like a human skull.

By David Aragorn
Dark matter may be smoother than expected 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 10, 2016
This map of dark matter in the Universe was obtained from data from the KiDS survey, using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.

By David Aragorn
Cosmic ‘barcode’ from distant galaxy confirms Nature’s constancy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2016
Astronomers have precisely measured the strength of a fundamental force of Nature in a galaxy seen eight billion years in the past.

By David Aragorn