The new planet discovered by researchers of La Silla (ESO) in Chile, is called Ogle-2005-Bgl-390Lb. It is five times larger than the earth and, out of all the planets that have been discovered during the last ten years, is the one most similar to our own. Researchers from ESO (European Southern Observatory) discovered the planet 20 thousand light years away, from a science-fiction like location hidden away in the middle of the Atacama desert. It is from here, in this astronomers paradise, where the largest telescopes in the world stretch their eyes to the galaxies. At an altitude of 2300 metres among the observatories of the Paranal and VTO (Very Large Telescopes), of La Silla and Las Campanas, a journey to find the first signs from ALMA (Atacama Milimetre Array), which in 2011, when it is finished, will be the largest radio telescope of all times. A walk to the outer limits amongst these steel monsters of precision which every day help scientists in their challenge to understand the Universe.  (More) ...