Tag: La Silla Observatory

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:22 UTC

  Chilean police launch major search for British astrophysicist disappeared in the Atacama Desert

  

  Chilean police have launched a major search for a British scientist who has gone missing in the north of the country. Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood to have been working.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 18:14 UTC

  Astronomers working from Chile discover Earth ‘clone’ in ‘our backyard’

  

  Astronomers have found a new planet, the closest yet outside our solar system and just an astronomical stone's throw away at four light years, raising the chances of finding a habitable planet in Earth's neighbourhood.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 07:59 UTC

  European Southern Observatory In Chile Discovers New Solar System

  

  Some 127 light years away in the constellation of Hydrus, a new solar system has been discovered by a team of astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on Cerro La Silla in Chile’s Coquimbo Region (IV).