Announcement

ESOcast 60: A Polarised View of Exoplanets

4 September 2013

In our newest ESOcast we explore a property of light that can be used to observe the otherwise invisible. By looking at polarised light astronomers can peer past the dazzling glow of stars to observe and study the planets that orbit them.

This exploration of exoplanets boosts our chances of finding distant rocky planets like our own, and the life that might call them home.

New instruments on the ESO Very Large Telescope and the European Extremely Large Telescope will take advantage of polarisation to delve deeper into planetary systems surrounding distant stars. To find out how, watch the mysteries of polarisation begin to unravel in ESOcast 60: A Polarised View of Exoplanets.

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