A telescope in Chile will get an upgrade so it can look for planets around Alpha Centauri


The VLT’s upgrade, which will take a couple years to complete, will focus on a tune-up of the telescope’s VISIR instrument. It’s an imaging tool that observes celestial objects in the mid-infrared, a type of light that can’t be seen but is associated with the emission of heat. Looking for planets in the visible light spectrum can be tough, since the intense light from a star can overpower the faint light of any nearby planets.

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