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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
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
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
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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