ScienceVega 2: The binary star at the heart of our Galaxy
The centre of the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. The image was taken in the visible portion of the spectrum, where the centre of the Galaxy is obscured by dust (dark clouds in the foreground). The smaller image was taken with the SINFONI spectrograph on...
Planet found in perpendicular orbit around pair of stars
This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs – objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. Credit: ESO/ M Kornmesser. Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90° around a rare pair of peculiar...
First 3D observations of exoplanet’s atmosphere reveal unique climate
Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists have been able to prove into its atmosphere, revealing...