Editor’s note: according to the ESO website: “The ELT will revolutionise the study of planets outside our Solar System. It will allow us to obtain direct images of some of […]
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Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release
The ArmazoNes High Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph: The Analysis Of The Universe
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement with an international consortium of institutions to develop and build ANDES, the ArmazoNes High Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. The ANDES instrument will […]
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ESO Signs Agreement For ANDES Life-Seeking Spectrograph On The ELT
[ESO] Today, ESO has signed an agreement with an international consortium of institutions for the design and construction of ANDES, the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. The ANDES instrument will […]
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Expedition To The Atacama Trench: Thinking Ahead To Enceladus and Europa
The Atacama in northern Chile is the oldest and driest desert on Earth. While tectonic activity reconfigured the shape and arrangement of land masses over the last 150 million years, […]
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Astronomers Discover A New Earth-sized World Orbiting Ultra-cool Star SPECULOOS-3
A new, Earth-sized planet orbiting an ultra-cool red dwarf star, has been detected by an international team of astronomers – just 55 light years away.
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Salas y Gómez Ridge Seamount Away Team Expedition Discovers 50 New Life Forms
International team co-led by a BSC researcher discovers more than 50 new deep-sea species in one of the most unexplored areas of the planet.
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Atacama Region As A Planetary Analog For Astrobiology
One possible approach in astrobiology is to use the range of possibilities offered by the Earth to study geographical niches that could be similar to environments observed on planets or […]
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Mouse Mummies Point To Mammalian Life In “Mars-like” Andes
The dry, wind-swept summits of volcanoes in the Puna de Atacama of Chile and Argentina are the closest thing on Earth to the surface of Mars due to their thin […]
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Tricorder Tech: Better Tools Will Be Needed To Determine Evidence Of Ancient Life On Mars
Current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of life might not be sensitive enough to make accurate assessments, according to a research team co-led by […]
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Hot Spring in Chile May Show Where to Look for Life Traces on Mars
Two geo-scientists at Arizona State University have made a discovery among hot springs in Chile that may spur scientists to revisit a location on Mars explored several years ago by […]