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ann1010 — Announcement

ESO Expresses Support for Victims of Chile Earthquake; No Damage to ESO Observatories

28 February 2010: A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck central Chile at 03:34 local time (07:34 CET) on Saturday 27 February 2010. The epicentre was 115 km north-northeast of the city of Concepción and 325 km south-west of the capital Santiago. The earthquake has caused significant casualties and damage in the country. ESO expresses ...
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ann1009 — Announcement

ESO Call for Proposals for Period 86 released. Deadline is 31 March 2010

26 February 2010: ESO Call for Proposals for Period 86 released. Deadline is 31 March 2010.
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ann1008 — Announcement

Around the World in 80 Telescopes is first runner up in IYA2009/Mani Bhaumik Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Education and Public Outreach

26 February 2010: The Around the World in 80 Telescopes webcast has been awarded the first runner-up position in the IYA2009/Mani Bhaumik Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Education and Public Outreach. Around the World in 80 Telescopes was a record-breaking and unprecedented, live, 24-hour public webcast featuring most of the research-grade astronomical observatories ...
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ann1007 — Announcement

ESO videos are now available for subtitling in your own language

18 February 2010: Would you like to see our astronomy outreach videos, such as the ESOcast video podcasts, subtitled in your own language? We are now uploading our videos to dotSUB, where members of the public can contribute subtitle translations. We want to bring the excitement of ESO astronomy to an even wider ...
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ann1006 — Announcement

European Young Scientist Prizewinner Visits ESO Facilities in Chile

17 February 2010: Julian Petrasch, the 17-year-old German student who won the special ESO prize at the 21st European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS), enjoyed the trip of a lifetime to two of ESO’s observatories in Chile from 7–13 February 2010. In Julian’s winning project, “Sky Alignment Simulator (SAMS) — improved determination ...
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ann1005 — Announcement

World's Most Precise Stellar Spectrograph Gets Polarised Vision

15 February 2010: The very successful HARPS spectrograph, attached to ESO's 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla, Chile, has just been enhanced with a new capability: the world's most precise polarimeter for the study of stars. Polarisation describes the preferential direction in which light vibrates as it travels and it is measured with a ...
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ann1004 — Announcement

"Noticias del Universo" travels to Northern Chile

21 January 2010: How have human beings been able to interpret information coming from space? That is the question that the itinerant exhibition Noticias del Universo (News from the Universe) answers, showing different tools developed throughout history to learn about the “invisible” world around us. Beginning from the simple telescope used by Galileo ...
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ann1003 — Announcement

Voices from the Universe book launched at ESO Chile

20 January 2010: A new book Voices from the Universe, written by poet Margarita Schultz and astronomer María Teresa Ruiz, includes spectacular astronomical images from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). As the celebrations of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 come to their end, the book Voices from the Universe was presented on ...
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ann1002 — Announcement

ESO Director General meets the President of Chile

14 January 2010: On 12 January 2010, ESO Director General Tim de Zeeuw met the Chilean president Michelle Bachelet at the Palacio La Moneda in Santiago. Chilean Vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Ángel Flisfisch, Ambassador Gabriel Rodriguez from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the ESO Representative in Chile, Massimo Tarenghi also attended. Since ...
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ann1001 — Announcement

ESO Highlights in 2009

4 January 2010: The year 2009 was celebrated as the International Year of Astronomy and has proved to be exceptional both for astronomy and for ESO. At Paranal, ESO’s flagship observatory, the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) started work at the end of 2009. Its first stunning images have been ...
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ann0942 — Announcement

E-ELT Science Brochure Published

14 December 2009: Thanks to ever larger telescopes, such as ESO’s Very Large Telescope, and ever more sensitive instruments, our astronomical knowledge continues to progress at an incredible pace, answering many questions, but also raising exciting new ones. The 42-metre European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), presently being planned by ESO, will be able ...
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ann0941 — Announcement

ESO Messenger No. 138 is available for download

14 December 2009: ESO Messenger No. 138 is available for download.
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ann0940 — Announcement

Paranal Residencia one of the "Top 10 Buildings of the Decade"

10 December 2009: ESO's Residencia at Paranal Observatory, Chile, has just been selected to be among the "top 10 buildings of the decade" by the UK’s Guardian newspaper. Cerro Paranal is a 2600-metre high mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert, perhaps the driest on Earth. It is the home of ESO’s Very Large ...
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ann0939 — Announcement

Eyes on the Skies wins Special Jury Award at the 2009 MEDEA Awards

8 December 2009: The Eyes on the Skies project initiated as part of International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) celebration now entering its final weeks has won an international accolade. After originally being selected as one of eight finalists from a field of over 254 entries from 39 countries, the Eyes on the ...
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ann0938 — Announcement

Cosmic Evolution: New Exhibition at the Deutsches Museum Features ESO

8 December 2009: Cosmic Evolution: New Exhibition at the Deutsches Museum Features ESO.
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ann0937 — Announcement

Media Advisory: ESO to hold media teleconference on 11 December to present pioneering new survey telescope

7 December 2009: Media Advisory: ESO to hold media teleconference on 11 December to present pioneering new survey telescope.
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ann0936 — Announcement

ESO wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

1 December 2009: ESO wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Click here to see the ESO Christmas animation we prepared for you.
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ann0935 — Announcement

Twenty years of Adaptive Optics development at ESO

26 November 2009: Twenty years of Adaptive Optics development at ESO.
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ann0934 — Announcement

ALMA "first fringes" at Chajnantor

16 November 2009: A team of astronomers and engineers at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first interferometric measurements of radio signals — so-called “fringes” — of an astronomical source from the observatory’s 5000-metre “high site” of Chajnantor. This is an important technical step for ALMA, as it used a ...
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ann0933 — Announcement

ESO Director General visits Vatican City

5 November 2009: On 30 and 31 October 2009 the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, was invited to visit the Vatican City, as part of an international group of renowned astronomers, on the occasion of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The visit included a tour of the Tower of Winds at ...
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