News tagged with vlti
Hundred metre virtual telescope captures unique detailed colour image
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of French astronomers has captured one of the sharpest color images ever made. They observed the star T Leporis, which appears, on the sky, as small as a two-storey house on the Moon. ...
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Planet Formation in Action? (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope an international team of astronomers has been able to study the short-lived disc of material around a young star that is in the early stages of making ...
Feb 24, 2011 |
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Supergiant star with a thick dust disc
How is it possible that HD 62623, a hot super-giant star on the verge of death, is surrounded by a disc, generally only associated with infant stars? Using long-baseline stellar interferometry at ESO's VLT ...
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Unravelling the Mystery of Massive Star Birth: All Stars are Born the Same Way (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have obtained the first image of a dusty disc closely encircling a massive baby star, providing direct evidence that massive stars form in the same way as their smaller brethren. ...
Jul 14, 2010 |
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European Extremely Large Telescope site chosen
On April 26, 2010, the ESO Council selected Cerro Armazones as the baseline site for the planned 42-meter European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). Cerro Armazones is a mountain at an altitude of 3060 meters ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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First detailed look at young dusty discs around ageing stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers from the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and the Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur in France have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile to discover ...
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Double engine for a nebula
(PhysOrg.com) -- The new image, showing a very rich field of stars towards the Carina arm of the Milky Way, is centred on the star HD 87643, a member of the exotic class of B[e] stars [1]. It is part of a ...
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Major milestone: First two ALMA telescope antennas linked
On 30 April, the team observed the first "interferometric fringes" of an astronomical source by linking two 12-metre diameter ALMA antennas, together with the other critical parts of the system. Mars was chosen ...
May 06, 2009 |
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In the heart of the Orion Nebula
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers, led by Stefan Kraus and Gerd Weigelt from the Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, used ESO's Very Large telescope Interferometer (VLTI) to obtain ...
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Powerful New Technique to Measure Asteroids' Sizes and Shapes
A team of French and Italian astronomers have devised a new method for measuring the size and shape of asteroids that are too small or too far away for traditional techniques, increasing the number of asteroids ...
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars
This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kra ...
Oct 10, 2008 |
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