The News Of Tomorrow, Today
The News Of Tomorrow, Today
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Ryan F. Mandelbaum
Scientists have directly observed an exoplanet in a whole new way, thanks to an instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer.
The bigger a telescope’s mirrors, the better resolution it has. Excavation has just begun on a new telescope that will be truly enormous, called the Giant Magellan Telescope.
At this point, we’ve spotted several thousand exoplanets – there’s nothing super exciting any more about finding a distant star with several worlds orbiting it. But today, scientists are announcing that they have seen an exoplanet in the middle of forming.
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