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Appears in 5 stories · Last updated Nov 5, 2026
Operates the Very Large Telescope, which collected the J1328−1450 spectra
The white dwarf J1328−1450 sits about 1,600 light years away, the burnt-out core of a star like the Sun. Two rings of glowing gas circle it, separated by an empty gap.
Updated 6 days ago
As of September 2026: Operated the telescope that imaged the shock
A dead star 730 light-years away is producing a shock wave it has no business making. The white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 has been ejecting material for at least 1,000 years, yet it lacks the accretion disk that normally drives such outflows.
Updated Sep 25
As of September 2026: Operated the Very Large Telescope that detected the candidate planet
Astronomers have confirmed a planet less than a million years old, the youngest ever found. Elias 2-24 b is a Jupiter-size world still gathering gas from the disk of dust around its host star, 450 light-years from Earth.
Updated Sep 17
As of September 2026: Provided the key observational data
Astronomers have caught a wandering black hole feeding from its own wake. The 35,000-solar-mass object sits outside the star-forming disk of the dwarf galaxy UGCA 320, about 20 million light-years from Earth, pulling gas from the dense trail its gravity leaves behind.
Updated Sep 13
As of May 2026: Operates the telescope and instrument used
On May 16, 2026, Davide Tornotti and an international team published the sharpest direct image of a cosmic web filament. The strand stretches 3 million light-years, linking two galaxies with active supermassive black holes as they appeared 12 billion years ago.
Updated May 20
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