Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2015

SPACE CHRONICLES telescope at the Paranal Observatory to take multiple images at different times of the central parts of the gal- axy at infrared wavelengths. It is dis- covering huge numbers of new ob- jects, including variable stars, clus- ters and exploding stars. A team of astronomers, led by Istvan Dékány of the Pontificia Universidad Cató- lica de Chile, has now used data from this survey, taken between 2010 and 2014, to make a remark- VISTA discovers new component of Milky Way T he Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea Survey (VVV) ESO pub- lic survey is using the VISTA by ESO