Thanks @luca_astro for inviting me to give a talk at Trinity College Dublin! I forward your Twitter post here : « It was great to host Dr Julien Milli from #IPAG
who presented us the latest on high contrast imaging of belts! 🔭 ☄️ including the discovery of a warp in a young belt with #ESO #VLT and @NASAHubble ! Paper out today: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05613 »

🇪🇺 #ESO Top 5 #science results 🌌 of the last 25 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXS9nQfg8eM

#VLT #VeryLargeTelescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope

The power of multiwavelength astronomy in action: A research group led by Philipp Weber of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) and Millennium Nucleus on Young Exoplanets and their Moons (YEMS) used ALMA to check on a young star, V960 Mon. Beyond the dust detectable with SPHERE, ALMA showed spiral arms of gas that are fragmenting, and have masses that can be progenitors of future giant planets.

#ALMA #AlmaObservatory #SPHERE #PlanetFormation #RadioAstronomy #VLT

https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/star-birth-spectacle-unveiled-from-chile/

La nébuleuse du "chat souriant" capturée dans une nouvelle image de l'ESO
https://www.eso.org/public/france/news/eso2309/
#astrophysique #nébuleuse #chat #étoile #ESO #télescope #VLT

So in terms of upgrades at the #VLT apparently #BlueMUSE is a particular priority for the community, according to the new ASTRONET roadmap
(https://www.astronet-eu.org/?page_id=521).
#astronet #eso

Monash University - Researchers confirm a new forming planet:

https://www.infowars.com/posts/researchers-confirm-a-new-forming-planet/

#Exoplanet #HD169142b #HD169142 #VeryLargeTelescope #VLT #SPHERE #ProtoplanetaryDisk #Protoplanet #Dust #Accretion #InfraredAstronomy #Infrared #Monash #PlanetaryScience #Astronomy

Hello Antu #VLT #ESO #Chile

When we present #scientific discoveries to the public, we always highlight the scientific team leading the results. However, we often forget that, astronomical discoveries would not be possible without the tremendous work of brillant #technicians and #engineers building and maintaining complex instrumentations.

The #ESO #picture of this week focus on the 8.2m #VLT and its associated instrumentation.

#Astronomy #Space #Science

Credit:
Zdeněk Bardon/ESO

read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2301a/

Say hello to Cone Nebula 👋 This magnificent entity (not the Crystalline one 🖖) is seven light years long and the product of newly created stars letting off wind after their Christmas brussels (science FACT). Picture from @esoastronomy on account of their 60 year anniversary. Thank you @shaman for the original share. #ConeNebula #ESO #VLT #Astrodon #AstroChatter #astrophotogrphy

Nowadays a significant fraction of the observing nights at the #ESO #VLT telescopes (Paranal Observatory, Taltal, Chile) are performed remotely, reducing the number of long distance flights necessary. I would say the tools used to perform and oversee these observations are far from perfect, but are serviceable and getting better.

Tonight I am remotely observing with #ESPRESSO, at the #ESO #VLT telescopes. Tonight we are doing a couple hours of RV measurements before we follow a transit for ~5 hours. I estimate I'll be up until 9-10 in the morning #Astronomy #Astronomerlife

A bit of fun... My recent image of M33 made after deconvolution with Russell Croman's BlurXTerminator compared to a (downscaled) image made with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) of ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. That's 0.18 m versus 2.61 m optics.
#Astrodon #astrophotography #blurxterminator #ESO #VLT

A bit of fun... My recent image of M33 made after deconvolution with Russell Croman's BlurXTerminator compared to a (downscaled) image made with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) of ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. That's 0.18 m versus 2.61 m optics.
#Astrodon #astrophotography #blurxterminator #ESO #VLT

The phase folded curves look fantastic, and once again highlight the excellent performance of #ESPRESSO and the #ESO #VLT telescopes. Very likely the most powerful radial velocity facility in the world.

A few #nights ago, #Saturn’s #moon #Titan was encountering a background #star. The alignment was perfect and was observed with the #ESO high-contrast and high-resolution instrument #SPHERE, on the 8.2-m #VLT #telescope.

These raw #images from the telescope shared by Conor Nixon on #Twitter are just amazing.

We can see #Titan as the big and nearby moon with some dark details on its atmosphere moving in front of the apparently smaller #star.

(To be Continued…)

#astronomy

Credits: ESO

La détection la plus lointaine d'un trou noir avalant une étoile
https://www.eso.org/public/france/news/eso2216/?lang
#astrophysique #trounoir #étoile #lumière #VLT #ESO #ZTF

This #picture was taken with #ESO’s new instrument (and not from #JWST), the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (#ERIS) which successfully completed its first light.

The #photography represents the #galaxy NGC1097.
Mounted on the #VLT (🇨🇱), ERIS is an #infrared instrument which aims at studying with unprecedented details a large diversity of objects, including #SolarSystem objects, #exoplanets and #galaxies.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann22015/

Credits: ESO

#Astronomy #Space

Nice color picture from the newly commissioned #ESO #VLT instrument ERIS. But somehow I expected to also finally see some datacubes by now?! 🤔 🔭
https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann22015/

3️⃣ First of all, why is WASP-39 b so particular to be the target of FIVE #Nature papers ?

Well, this #planet is a transiting hot jupiter, as we know hundreds of them. It's a giant #planet orbiting with an orbital period of 4 days.

Its atmosphere was already well known as observed by the #Hubble #space #telescope (with 2 different instruments), the #Spitzer space telescope, and the 8.2m #ESO #VLT telescope in #Chile.

Below is the transmission spectrum of WASP-39b that we knew before #JWST.

If you want to get some news on the #HIP41378 system that I observed last weekend, you shall follow @sgrouffal.

She is doing a #PhD thesis with me on the #PLATO space mission from the European #Space agency #ESA. She is also working on the analysis of exquisite data of #HIP41378 taken with the very large telescope #VLT, in #Chile.

She is also the artist who produced this great #video of the system 🤩

#Astronomy #Astrophysics