Dear Fellow Communicators,
Welcome to the New Year! We hope you had a fantastic start to 2019 and wish you another turn around the Sun full of meaningful and exciting projects.
We would like to welcome Dimitris Polychroniadis to our network of ESO Music Ambassadors. Dimitris believes that music is one of the most important means of communication among people, as well as between humans and the Universe. We invite you to discover more about him on his Ambassador profile.
We are also happy to welcome a new ESO Photo Ambassador, Zdenek Bardon . Zdenek is an avid astrophotographer and cannot miss a chance to capture an image of the Milky Way, especially in places such as La Silla, where the night is so very dark. The optics company Zeiss has just produced a marvellous large-format 2019 calendar with Zdenek’s photos and has also published this article about him. You can discover more about him on his Ambassador profile.
Towards the end of last year, we arranged two competitions for people to join us for the 2019 Total Solar Eclipse at the La Silla. We invite you to discover the winners of the second #MeetESO and the winner of the La Silla Total Eclipse Public Competition and to follow them on social media to witness their adventures at our sites in Chile this summer.
For our astrophotographer friends, we invite you to check out the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year announcement to find out how you can enter this world-renowned competition.
Finally, if you are still searching for the perfect calendar for 2019, we still have a few copies of the ESO 2019 Calendar available.
Let’s reach new heights in astronomy together!
Lars Lindberg Christensen (lars@eso.org)
ESO education and Public Outreach Department (ePOD)
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18 January 2019: Although they look like fuzzy patches of light, distant galaxies are actually made up of billions of stars and other astronomical intricacies. Telescopes are rarely powerful enough to study the ...
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11 January 2019: Each year it seems that ESO makes ever more impressive discoveries, with 2018 bringing us a host of new exoplanets — including the first image of a newborn planet, the ...
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Paolo La Penna
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21 December 2018: How can knowledge about building ESO’s world-class telescopes help accelerate tiny particles at CERN? Surprisingly, it can be vital! Organisations that are part of the EIROforum often share resources and ...
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23 January 2019: The GRAVITY instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has seen what seems an impossible sight...
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22 January 2019: The faint, ephemeral glow emanating from the planetary nebula ESO 577-24 persists for only a short time -- around 10,000 years, a blink of an eye in astronomical terms. ESO’s ...
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11 January 2019: In Chile Chill 12 the evocative tunes of ESO’s Music Ambassador Dimitris Polychroniadis are set to stunning visuals from ESO’s expansive video archive. Sit back, relax, and enjoy a stellar ...
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