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Astronomers Suspected There Should Be a Planet Here, and Then They Took a Picture of it
Two teams independently discovered a super-Jupiter around a nearby Sun-like star using astrometry and direct imaging.
Astronomers Spot Three Interacting Systems with Twin Discs
Using the SPHERE instrument on the ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers observed how interaction between disks affects…
Astronomers Directly Image Debris Disk and find a Jupiter-Sized Planet Orbiting a Sunlike Star
The SHINE collaboration recently observed a Super-Jupiter within a young debris orbiting a nearby star. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Weiss…
An Asteroid has Been Discovered With Three Moons!
Planets aren’t the only celestial objects with moons - asteroids can have them too. They are usually other, smaller asteroids…
A 2nd Planet has been Confirmed for Proxima Centauri
Our closest stellar neighbour is Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf star about 4.2 light years away from us. It's…
This is an Actual Image of a Planet-Forming Disc in a Distant Star System
In 2017, astronomers used ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array) to look at the star AB Aurigae. It's a type of…
Astronomers Might Have Imaged a Second Planet Around Nearby Proxima Centauri – and it Might Have a Huge Set of Rings
A new study by a team using data from the Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument, may have caught a direct…
New Images of the “Golf Ball” Asteroid Pallas
New images of the asteroid Pallas (the clearest and most detailed to date) reveal that it looks like a "golf…
Asteroid Hygiea is Round Enough That it Could Qualify as a Dwarf Planet, the Smallest in the Solar System
Using the Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers observed Hygeia and determined it could be the smallest dwarf…
A double asteroid came uncomfortably close this weekend. Here’s what astronomers saw
Using the Very Large Telescope, a team of ESO scientists took some stunningly clear images of a double asteroid that…