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HARPS Sees Sunshine for the First Time

HELIOS is an instrument that was installed in April 2018 to feed sunlight via fibre optics to the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph.

Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal Life

Prof Didier Queloz, Conference organised by Chemistry society on ongoing developments related to recent work done in collaboration with colleagues biochemists providing some new insights about the origins of life on Earth and prospect of “Universal life”…

GAIA creates the richest star catalogue to date

1.7 billions stars... yes, billions, not millions. This is the number of #stars included in the new catalog released today by the Gaia #satellite team. The exploration of this catalog will allow many discoveries, also regarding our own galaxy and...

Using cosmic lens to discover most distant star ever observed

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from UNIGE, has detected the most distant individual star observed to date, located 9 billion light-years from Earth. This star, normally too weak to be seen, could be observed thanks to a gravit…

ESO VLT works as giant telescope for the first time with ESPRESSO

The European Space Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved a new milestone thanks to its ESPRESSO tool. With this, all four of VLT’s 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes are working together as a single giant telescope. This is a huge achievement for th…

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