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june 30, 2017 - e.s.o.

It took some of the brightest minds in science and technology to build ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, one of the largest and most sophisticated telescope facilities in the world. Now Dutch astron...



june 19, 2017 - e.s.o.

The team behind the Pale Red Dot campaign, who last year discovered a planet around the closest star to our Sun (eso1629), are resuming their search for Earth-like planets and launching another initia...



june 19, 2017 - e.s.o.

Capturing and recording the (often very faint) light from the heavens has always been an essential aspect of astronomy. The very first astronomical “detector” was, of course, the unaided human eye — a...



june 15, 2017 - e.s.o.

The winner of the AstroCamp 2017 bursary offered by #eso has now been selected from almost 100 applications from about a dozen countries. #eso is delighted to announce that #evaforrest from the Unite...



june 15, 2017 - e.s.o.

The latest issue of the free magazine #science in School is now available online and in printed form. This European journal for #science teachers offers up-to-date information on cutting-edge #science...



june 14, 2017 - e.s.o.

Two of the sky’s more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbour in this enormous new three gigapixel image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies the faint, glow...



june 08, 2017 - e.s.o.

ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block of life. This is the first ever detection of this prebio...



may 31, 2017 - e.s.o.

Contracts for the manufacture of the 39-metre primary mirror of ESO’s #extremelylargetelescope (ELT) were signed today at a ceremony at ESO’s Headquarters near Munich. The German company SCHOTT will p...



may 29, 2017 - e.s.o.

A ceremony marking the first stone of ESO’s #extremelylargetelescope (ELT) has been attended today by the President of the Republic of Chile, #michellebachelet Jeria. The event was held at ESO’s Paran...




may 22, 2017 - e.s.o.

ESO has awarded a multi-million euro contract to the international company Teledyne e2v to design and produce a set of Large Visible Sensor Modules for use on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Sche...



may 12, 2017 - e.s.o.

An extension of the agreement between the partners of the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) has been signed, ensuring that this very productive collaboration will continue until the end of 2022. Th...



may 11, 2017 - e.s.o.

CNRS Images, in partnership with #eso, has produced a documentary about MUSE, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer. Directed by Christophe Gombert and Claude Delhaye, MUSE, The Cosmic Time Machine ta...



may 10, 2017 - e.s.o.

Astronomers from around the world have submitted a record 1712 proposals to observe with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) during its next observing cycle (Cycle 5). Cycle 5 runs...



march 24, 2017 - e.s.o.

Observations using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies. These are the first c...