Tag Archive for 'PIONIER'

This image, taken with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, shows the beautiful nebula NGC 6164/6165. The nebula is a cloud of gas and dust surrounding a pair of stars called HD 148937. Image credit: ESO / VPHAS+ Team / CASU.

Astronomers Observe Result of Violent Stellar Merger

Apr 11, 2024 by News Staff

Most stellar magnetic fields — including the Sun’s — are produced by a dynamo that is generated in interior layers undergoing convection....

Kluska et al provided model-independent reconstructed images of 15 protoplanetary disks selected from the Herbig AeBe survey carried out with PIONIER at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Image credit: Kluska et al, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833774.

Astronomers Observe Inner Rims of Protoplanetary Disks around Young Massive Stars

Apr 30, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using the PIONIER (Precision Integrated-Optics Near-infrared Imaging ExpeRiment) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer...

This colorful image shows the sky around the bright pair of stars π1 Gruis (center-right, very red) and π2 Gruis (center-left, bluish-white). Just right of center the bright spiral galaxy IC 5201 is also visible and many other fainter galaxies are scattered across this wide-field image from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Image credit: ESO / Digitized Sky Survey 2 / Davide De Martin.

Astronomers Observe Huge ‘Granules’ on Surface of Red Giant Star

Dec 29, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by ESO astronomer Claudia Paladini has directly observed granules — patterns of convection currents in the...