The Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) at Paranal
The Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) is located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. This project will search for transiting exoplanets — planets that pass in front of their parent star and hence produce a slight dimming of the star’s light that can be detected by sensitive instruments. The telescopes will focus on discovering Neptune-sized and smaller planets, with diameters between two and eight times that of Earth.
This engineering rendering shows the complete system in its enclosure.
Credit:ESO/R. West
About the Image
Id: | eso1502f |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 14 January 2015, 12:00 |
Related releases: | eso1502 |
Size: | 7680 x 4320 px |
About the Object
Name: | Next-Generation Transit Survey |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology |
Category: | Paranal |
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