Imaging planets that could potentially sustain life around nearby stars has become a possibility thanks to advances reported by an international team of astronomers in the journal Nature Communications.
The first comprehensive planetary search campaign around the nearest star Alpha Centauri A has just been performed on the VLT telescope of the Southern European Observatory (ESO) using the NEAR infrared instrument (Near Earths in the AlphaCen Region).
Herschel discovers hundreds of proto-stars in a dark cloud
The first scientific images of the Herschel Space telescope have just been released during a scientific conference held at Madrid (Spain) on 17 and 18 decembre 2009, only six months after launch.