Actualités
Montée au Télescope
21 mai 2014
Avril 2014 : SPHERE est transféré du hall d’intégration de Paranal à UT3 !
SPHERE à Paranal
21 mai 2014
Mars 2014 : L’instrument vient d’arriver sur le Très Grand Télescope (VLT) de l’ESO.
β Pictoris b post conjunction detection with VLT/SPHERE
22 septembre 2018
On Septembre 19th 2018, SPHERE observed the planet beta Pic b emerging in front of the star while it had been undetectable for the last 2 years. SPHERE has been following up this object since the very beginning. This observation constrains the semi major axis of the planet orbit to 9 astronomical units. The animation shows 12 epochs of observation from December 2014 to September 2018... more (...)
Discovery of a young planet nested in the gap of a transitional disk
2 juillet 2018
Since a long time astronomers suspected gaps and ring-like structures in disks surrounding young stars as signs of ongoing planet formation. SPHERE was now able to image such a planet located in the gap of the transitional disk around the 5 6 Million years young star PDS70 in unprecedented detail. In combination with older data from SPHERE and other instruments (NaCo at the VLT and NICI at (...)
SPHERE Unveils its First Exoplanet
5 décembre 2017
A young and warm giant planet has been identified around the star HIP 65426. It lies at a projected distance of 92 astronomical units from the host star and its estimated mass is about 6 to 12 times that of Jupiter.
Rocky worlds in the asteroid belt
5 décembre 2017
Four asteroids from the main belt were observed SPHERE which revealed unprecedented details of these surface
SPHERE, ça tourne !
6 mai 2014
[COULISSE] #CNRSImages suit les équipes des projets #MUSE et #SPHERE au #VLT (Chili) @UNIV_INSU_CNRS @ESO pic.twitter.com/dM37ibW1Gj CNRS Images (@CNRSImages) 6 Mai 2014
SPHERE s’installe... sur les ondes également
6 mai 2014
Minutes : 12:46 - 14:31 Le chasseur d'exoplanètes SPHERE installé dans un des télescopes du #VLT @OSUG_fr @CNRS @UNIV_INSU_CNRS @OsuPytheas pic.twitter.com/E4bXbDH8EM Priscilla Dacher (@DacherPriscilla) 6 Mai 2014