ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located at 2,500 metres in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Image: M. Claro/ESO
ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located at 2,500 metres in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Image: M. Claro/ESO - Astronomers from the Netherlands, Belgium, Chile, the USA and Germany have imaged the newly discovered exoplanet "YSES 2b" right next to its host star Light An international research team with the participation of Dr Markus Mugrauer from the Astrophysical Institute of Friedrich Schiller University Jena has succeeded in the direct imaging of a young exoplanet. The planet orbits the Sun-like star YSES 2, which is about 360 light years away and located in the constellation Musca (the Fly) in the southern night sky. The team discovered the exoplanet using the SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. The researchers have now published their observations in the current issue of the scientific journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics". Since the discovery of the first exoplanets a good 30 years ago, the number of newly discovered planets amongst distant stars has been growing steadily. More than 4000 such planets are currently known to exist.
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