The brand new instrument PLATO Spec has seen first light and is ready for hunting exoplanets! 🪐 It will find stars hosting exoplanets by detecting changes in the star’s light, as it wobbles due to the planet’s gravitational pull.
PLATO Spec is mounted on the ESO 1.52 m telescope at La Silla Observatory in #Chile. The telescope was retired 20 years ago, but it was recently refurbished by a team led by the Czech Academy of Sciences, bringing new life to this veteran machine. 🔭
Discover more: https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann24019/
📷 Zdeněk Bardon/ESO
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Stefan Schmeja
In response to this post@esoastronomy It's so great to see that the telescopes at La Silla are still used to do research.
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