In search of super-Earths: Spectrograph CRIRES+ at ESO's Very Large Telescope
E-Mail IMAGE: CRIRES+ (CRyogenic high-resolution InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph+) is an instrument installed on ESOs Very Large Telescope (VLT) that is designed to search for potentially habitable super-Earth exoplanets. The instrument, which saw... view more Credit: ESO The astronomy research instrument CRIRES+ is designed to study planets outside our solar system. It is now in operation at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The Institute of A...
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