JuMBOs
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 Discovery of 40 jumbo planets in the Orion Nebula A surprising find of free-floating pairs of planets has been made with images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. These planets are as massive as Jupiter. In the mosaic...
HD 110067: Six planets in harmony
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), October 2024 Orbiting the star HD 110067, slightly over 100 light years from here, six planets were discovered using the space telescopes TESS and CHEOPS (Luque et al, nature 2023). The exceptional thing are the orbital periods of these...
VLT – ESO’s Very Large Telescope
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), March 2025 Located in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile as part of the Paranal Observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) is one of the largest and most advanced optical telescope facilities in the world. It is operated by the...
Observatoire de Haute-Provence
This page is currently a work in progress. The Observatoire de Haute-Provence is an observatory established in 1937 and located in South-Eastern France, about 100km north of Marseille. Among many different research activities relating to astronomy, atmospheric science...