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01.9.2006
- ESO Call for Proposals for Period 79 has been released. The next deadline (for Period 79, 1 April 2007 - 30 September 2007) is: 29 September 2006 (12:00 noon, CEST).
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/observing/proposals/.
30.8.2006
- ESO 33/06 - Science Release: Astronomers, using ESO's Very Large Telescope, have for the first time made the link between an X-ray flash and a supernova. Such flashes are the little siblings of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) and this discovery suggests the existence of a population of events less luminous than 'classical' GRBs, but possibly much more numerous.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-33-06.html.
24.8.2006
- ESO 32/06 - Organisation Release: The General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), meeting in Prague (Czech Republic), has elected the ESO Director General, Dr. Catherine Cesarsky, as President for a three-year period (2006-2009). The IAU is a body of distinguished professional astronomers, founded in 1919 to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its aspects through international cooperation. It now has almost 10 000 individual members drawn from all continents. Dr. Cesarsky is the first woman to receive this high distinction. At the same General Assembly, Dr. Ian Corbett, ESO's Deputy Director General, was elected Assistant General Secretary for 2006-2009, with the expectation of becoming General Secretary in 2009-2012.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-32-06.html.
24.8.2006
- ESO 31/06 - Science Release: SINFONI Discovers Rapidly Forming, Large Proto-Disc Galaxies Three Billion Years After The Big Bang -- An international group of astronomers have discovered large disc galaxies akin to our Milky Way that must have formed on a rapid time scale, only 3 billion years after the Big Bang. In one of these systems, the combination of adaptive optics techniques with the new SINFONI spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) resulted in a record-breaking resolution of a mere 0.15 arcsecond, giving an unprecedented detailed view of the anatomy of such a distant proto-disc galaxy.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-31-06.html.
14.8.2006
- The Large Bolometer Camera for APEX (LABOCA), a 295-element bolometer array operating at 870ym, has successfully passed its pre-shipment review, and will be installed on the APEX 12m telescope on Chajnantor in September 2006. ESO now invites proposals for science verification from the ESO community. Pending successful on-sky commissioning, ESO also proposes to schedule its share of LABOCA observing time on the telescope in October and December 2006 as further Science Verification. All observations will be performed in service mode by the local APEX staff. All proposals should be sent to cdebreuc@eso.org by noon CEST on Monday 4 September 2006.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/projects/apex/SV_LABOCA.pdf.
10.8.2006
- ESO 30/06 - Science Release: A possible Stellar Solution to the Cosmological Lithium Problem -- Analysing a set of stars in a globular cluster with ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers may have found the solution to a critical cosmological and stellar riddle. Until now, an embarrassing question was why the abundance of lithium produced in the Big Bang is a factor 2 to 3 times higher than the value measured in the atmospheres of old stars. The answer, the researchers say, lies in the fact that the abundances of elements measured in a star's atmosphere decrease with time.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-30-06.html.
04.8.2006
- ESO 29/06 - Science Release: Astronomers Discover Double Planetary Mass Object -- The cast of exoplanets has an extraordinary new member. Using ESO's telescopes, astronomers have discovered an approximately seven-Jupiter-mass companion to an object that is itself only twice as hefty. Both objects have masses similar to those of extra-solar giant planets, but they are not in orbit around a star - instead they appear to circle each other. The existence of such a double system puts strong constraints on formation theories of free-floating planetary mass objects.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-29-06.html.
03.8.2006
- ESO 28/06 - Science Release: Brown Dwarf Survives Being Swallowed -- Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered a rather unusual system, in which two planet-size stars, of different colours, orbit each other. One is a rather hot white dwarf, weighing a little bit less than half as much as the Sun. The other is a much cooler, 55 Jupiter-masses brown dwarf.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-28-06.html.
31.7.2006
- As of August 2006, we are introducing an electronic newsletter to keep the community informed about current activities of interest at ESO. These communications will include announcements of calls for proposals, announcements for special observing opportunities such as delta calls or surveys, announcements of opportunities for instrumentation or software developement, and other information of interest to the community. The newsletter will appear roughly every two to three months or whenever important news becomes available. It will not replace the regular ESO publications such as The Messenger or Press Releases.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/enews/.
26.7.2006
- ESO 27/06 - Press Photo: If life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you will get - the Universe, with its immensely large variety of galaxies, must be a real candy store! ESO's Very Large Telescope has taken images of three different "Island Universes", each amazing in their own way, whose curious shapes testify of a troubled past, and for one, of a foreseeable doomed future. With ESO PR Photos 27a-c/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-27-06.html.
21.7.2006
- ESO 26/06 - Science Release: Today, British astronomers are releasing the first data from the largest and most sensitive survey of the heavens in infrared light to the ESO user community. The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) has completed the first of seven years of data collection, studying objects that are too faint to see at visible wavelengths, such as very distant or very cool objects. New data on young galaxies is already challenging current thinking on galaxy formation, revealing galaxies that are massive at a much earlier stage of development than expected. These first science results already show how powerful the full survey will be at finding rare objects that hold vital clues to how stars and galaxies in our Universe formed. With ESO PR Photos 26a-b/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-26-06.html.
21.7.2006
- ESO 25/06 - Organisation Release: ESO, the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, is taking an important step towards the realisation of a new, giant telescope for Europe's astronomers, by creating the ESO Extremely Large Telescope Project Office. It will be headed by Jason Spyromilio, formerly La Silla Paranal Observatory Director.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-25-06.html.
13.7.2006
- ESO 24/06 - Instrument Release: The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) 12-m sub-millimetre telescope lives up to the ambitions of the scientists by providing access to the "Cold Universe" with unprecedented sensitivity and image quality. As a demonstration, no less than 26 articles based on early science with APEX are published this week in the research journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Among the many new findings, most in the field of star formation and astrochemistry, are the discovery of a new interstellar molecule, and the detection of light emitted at 0.2 mm from CO molecules, as well as light coming from a charged molecule composed of two forms of Hydrogen.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-24-06.html.
13.7.2006
- The current ESO Director General, Catherine Cesarsky will be leaving her post at the end of August 2007. ESO Council has decided to establish a Search Committee to help in the selection of the next DG. Dr Cesarsky has led ESO during a period of outstanding scientific, technical and organisational success. The Council wishes to build on this record of success by appointing an outstanding DG via an open international search.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/adm/pers/vacant/ESO_Director_General_2006.pdf.
13.7.2006
- ESO Science Release 23/06: ESO's VLT has helped scientists to discover a large primordial 'blob', more than 10 billion light-years away. The most likely scenario to account for its existence and properties is that it represents the early stage in the formation of a galaxy, when gas falls onto a large clump of dark matter.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-23-06.html.
28.6.2006
- ESO 22/06 - Press Photo: Life is not easy, even for galaxies. Some indeed get so close to their neighbours that they get rather distorted. But such encounters between galaxies have another effect: they spawn new generations of stars, some of which explode. ESO's VLT has obtained a unique vista of a pair of entangled galaxies, in which a star exploded. With ESO PR Photo 22/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-22-06.html.
19.6.2006
- Conference: Towards the European ELT (Marseille, 27 Nov. - 1 Dec.) now open for registration
Take a look at: http://www.popsud.org/elt2006/.
19.6.2006
- ESO 21/06 - Organisation News: ESO and the Government of Chile launched today the book "10 Years Exploring the Universe", written by the beneficiaries of the ESO-Chile Joint Committee. This annual fund provides grants for individual Chilean scientists, research infrastructures, scientific congresses, workshops for science teachers and astronomy outreach programmes for the public. With ESO PR Photo 21/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-21-06.html.
08.6.2006
- ESO 20/06 - Press Photo: The Southern constellation Tucana (the Toucan) is probably best known as the home of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. But Tucana also hosts another famous object that shines thousands of lights, like a magnificent, oversized diamond in the sky: the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. More popularly known as 47 Tuc, it is surpassed in size and brightness by only one other globular cluster, Omega Centauri. With ESO PR Photo 20/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-20-06.html.
06.6.2006
- ESO 19/06 - Science Release: Two new studies, based on observations made with ESO's telescopes, show that objects only a few times more massive than Jupiter are born with discs of dust and gas, the raw material for planet making. This suggests that miniature versions of the solar system may circle objects that are some 100 times less massive than our Sun. With ESO PR Photos 19a-b/06. Appendix: Recent developments on Exoplanets at ESO More
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-19-06.html.
17.5.2006
- ESO Science Release 18/06: Using the ultra-precise HARPS spectrograph on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla (Chile), a team of European astronomers have discovered that a nearby star is host to three Neptune-mass planets. The innermost planet is most probably rocky, while the outermost is the first known Neptune-mass planet to reside in the habitable zone. This unique system is likely further enriched by an asteroid belt. With three roughly equal-mass planets, one being in the habitable zone, and an asteroid belt, this planetary system shares many properties with our own solar system.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-18-06.html.
11.5.2006
- ESO Press Photo 17/06: ESO's Very Large Telescope, equipped with the multi-mode FORS instrument, took an image of NGC 3190, a galaxy so distorted that astronomers gave it two names. And as if to prove them right, in 2002 it fired off, almost simultaneously, two stellar explosions, a very rare event.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-17-06.html.
11.5.2006
- ESO Science Release 16/06: Using a quasar located 12.3 billion light-years away as a beacon, a team of astronomers detected the presence of molecular hydrogen in the farthest system ever, an otherwise invisible galaxy that we observe when the Universe was less than 1.5 billion years old, that is, about 10% of its present age. The astronomers find that there is about one hydrogen molecule for 250 hydrogen atoms. A similar set of observations for two other quasars, together with the most precise laboratory measurements, allows scientists to infer that the ratio of the proton to electron masses may have changed with time. If confirmed, this would have important consequences on our understanding of physics.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-16-06.html.
25.4.2006
- ESO Press Photo 15/06: On the night of April 23 to 24, ESO's Very Large Telescope observed fragment B of the comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 that had split a few days earlier. To their great surprise, the ESO astronomers discovered that the piece just ejected by fragment B was splitting again! Five other mini-comets are also visible on the image. The comet seems thus doomed to disintegrate but the question remains in how much time.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-15-06.html.
14.4.2006
- ESO Press Photo 14/06: An image made of about 300 million pixels is being released by ESO, based on more than 64 hours of observations with the Wide-Field Camera on the 2.2m telescope at La Silla (Chile). The image covers an 'empty' region of the sky five times the size of the full moon, opening an exceptionally clear view towards the most distant part of our universe. It reveals objects that are 100 million times fainter than what the unaided eye can see.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-14-06.html.
14.4.2006
- ESO Press Photo 13/06: Hanging above the Large Magellanic Cloud - one of our closest galaxies - in what some describe as a frightening sight, the Tarantula nebula is worth looking at in detail.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-13-06.html.
28.3.2006
- ESO Press Release 12/06: Science is moving more rapidly than ever; one groundbreaking discovery chases the next at an incredible speed. School teachers have trouble keeping up with the pace, and many pupils call science classes "boring". Today, Europe's major research organisations launch Science in School, the first international, multidisciplinary journal for innovative science teaching, to provide a platform for communication between science teachers, practising scientists and other stakeholders in science education.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-12-06.html.
22.3.2006
- ESO Science Release 11/06: At a time when astronomers are peering into the most distant Universe, looking at objects as far as 13 billion light-years away, one may think that our close neighbourhood would be very well known. Not so. Astronomers still find new star-like objects in our immediate vicinity. Using Eso's Very Large Telescope in Chile, an international team of researchers discovered a brown dwarf belonging to the 24th closest stellar system to the Sun. With ESO PR Photos 11a-d/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-11-06.html.
15.3.2006
- ESO Science Release 10/06: Studying several tens of distant galaxies, an international team of astronomers found that galaxies had the same amount of dark matter relative to stars 6 billion years ago as they have now. If confirmed, this suggests a much closer interplay between dark and normal matter than previously believed. The scientists also found that as many as 4 out of 10 galaxies are out of balance. These results shed a new light on how galaxies form and evolve since the Universe was only half its current age. With ESO PR Photos 10a-c/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-10-06.html.
01.3.2006
- ESO Call for Proposals for Period 78 has been released. The next deadline (for Period 78, 1 October 2006 - 1 April 2007) is: 31 March 2006 (12:00 noon, CEST).
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/observing/proposals/.
28.2.2006
- ESO Press Photo 09/06: Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at Cerro Paranal, Chile, and the CHARA Interferometer at Mount Wilson, California, a team of French and North American astronomers has discovered envelopes around three Cepheids, including the Pole star. This is the first time that matter is found surrounding members of this important class of rare and very luminous stars whose luminosity varies in a very regular way. Cepheids play a crucial role in cosmology, being one of the first "steps" on the cosmic distance ladder. With ESO PR Photo 09/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-09-06.html.
23.2.2006
- ESO Press Photo 08/06: ESO's Very Large Telescope took another amazing image, this time of Supernova 2006X inside the Messier 100 spiral galaxy. With ESO PR Photos 08a-b/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-08-06.html.
23.2.2006
- ESO News Release 07/06: Scientists celebrate another major milestone at Cerro Paranal in Chile, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope array. Thanks to their dedicated efforts, they were able to create the first artificial star in the Southern Hemisphere, allowing astronomers to study the Universe in the finest detail. This artificial laser guide star makes it possible to apply adaptive optics systems, that counteract the blurring effect of the atmosphere, almost anywhere in the sky. With ESO PR Photos 07a-c/06 and video 07/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-07-06.html.
15.2.2006
- ESO News Release 06/06: Astronomers, using the unique capabilities offered by the high-resolution spectrograph UVES on ESO's Very Large Telescope, have found a metal-rich hydrogen cloud in the distant universe. The result may help to solve the missing metal problem and provides insight on how galaxies form. With ESO PR Photo 06/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-06-06.html.
13.2.2006
- ESO News Release 05/06: Today, during a ceremony in Madrid, an agreement was signed by the Spanish Minister of Education and Science and the ESO Director General affirming their commitment to securing Spanish membership of ESO. With ESO PR Photos 05a-b/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-05-06.html.
10.2.2006
- The UKIDSS EDR was released today, Friday 10 February. UKIDSS is a set of 5 large near-infrared surveys that began in May 2005, and will take 7 years to complete. The EDR is a small fraction (about 1%) of the whole programme, but in scope it is as large as 2MASS (as gauged by the number of photons collected).
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/science/projects/ukidss/index.html.
07.2.2006
- ESO Press Release 04/06: VLT Study Reveals Troubled Past of Globular Cluster Messier 12 - Based on observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of Italian astronomers reports that the stellar cluster Messier 12 must have lost to our Milky Way galaxy close to one million low-mass stars. With ESO PR Photos 04a-b/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-04-06.html.
25.1.2006
- ESO Press Release 03/06: Distant Planet Brings Astronomers Closer To Home. - Using a network of telescopes scattered across the globe, including the Danish 1.54m telescope at ESO La Silla (Chile), astronomers [1] discovered a new extrasolar planet significantly more Earth-like than any other planet found so far. With ESO PR Photos 03a-b/06 and ESO PR Video ESO PR Video 03a/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-03-06.html.
04.1.2006
- ESO Press Release 02/06: Observing a very rare occultation of a star by Pluto's satellite Charon from three different sites, including Paranal, home of the VLT, astronomers were able to determine with great accuracy the radius and density of the satellite to the farthest planet. With ESO PR Photos 02a-c/06.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-02-06.html.
07.12.2005
- ESO Press Release 31/05: ESO signs largest-ever European industrial contract for ground-based astronomy project ALMA
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-31-05.html.
30.11.2005
- ESO Press Release 30/05: The Dwarf that Carries a World
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-30-05.html.
24.11.2005
- ESO Press Release 29/05: Sharp Vision Reveals Intimacy of Stars
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-29-05.html.
10.11.2005
- ESO Press Release 28/05: Setting the Stage for Science in Schools
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-28-05.html.
09.11.2005
- ESO Press Release 27/05: Star on the Run
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-27-05.html.
04.11.2005
- ESO Press Photo 34/05: Cosmic Portrait of a Perturbed Family
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/phot-34-05.html.
17.10.2005
- Catch a Star! 2005 is launched. There are three ways to enter the competition and nice prize to win.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/eduoff/edu-prog/catchastar.
17.10.2005
- ESO Press Photo 33/05: Feeding the Monster
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/phot-33-05.html.
05.10.2005
- ESO Press Release 26/05: Flashes Shed Light on Cosmic Clashes
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-26-05.html.
05.10.2005
- Delta Call Proposal Submission for FLASH Instrument. Deadline: 14 October 2005)
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/observing/proposals/77/index.flash.html.
04.10.2005
- On Saturday, October 22, 2005, the ESO Headquarters in Garching near Munich will open its doors for the public from 10:00 - 17:00. As in earlier years, Open House Day is organised together with the other research institutes in the area. As usual, (mostly) German-speaking staff members will provide information about ESO and the ongoing work at this organisation.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/info-events/openhouse/ohd05.html.
30.9.2005
- This data release includes 19 fields in H band covering 126.7 arcmin2, as well as three mosaics in the J, H and Ks bands. The data were reduced and prepared for release by the Advanced Data Products group in the Virtual Observatory Systems department.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/science/goods/.
30.9.2005
- ESO Messenger No. 121 (Sep 2005; 72pp). Highlights: I. Hook et al.: Science with Extremely Large Telescopes; H.-U. Käufl et al.: Deep Impact at ESO Telescopes; W. Gieren et al.: Measuring Improved Distances to Nearby Galaxies: The Araucaria Project; S. Lilly et al.: The zCOSMOS Redshift Survey.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/pubs/messenger/.
29.9.2005
- ESO Press Photo 31/05: The Colossal Cosmic Eye ESO's VLT Captures Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1350.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/phot-31-05.html.
21.9.2005
- ESO Press Release 24/05: A Cosmic Baby-Boom - Large Population of Galaxies Found in the Young Universe with ESO's VLT.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-24-05.html.
14.9.2005
- Following the successful initial Science Verification of the APEX-2A 345-GHz facility receiver on APEX in July and August, ESO proposes to schedule its remaining share of observing time on the telescope in 2005 as a further Science Verification period for this instrument alone.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/projects/apex/SV_SecondCall.pdf.
14.9.2005
- ESO Press Photo 23/05: Black Hole in Search of a Home - Astronomers Discover Bright Quasar Without Massive Host Galaxy.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-23-05.html.
01.9.2005
- ESO Call for Proposals for Period 77 has been released. The next deadline (for Period 77, 1 April 2006 - 30 September 2006) is: 30 September 2005 (12:00 noon, CEST).
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/observing/proposals/.
24.8.2005
- ESO Press Photo 26/05: Celestial Blast in Bleak Reticulum - ESO's multi-mode FORS1 instrument observed supernova SN 2005df in the southern Reticulum constellation.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/phot-26-05.html.
23.8.2005
- Open House Day at ESO HQ in Garching - On Saturday, October 22, 2005, the ESO Headquarters in Garching near Munich will open its doors for the public from 10:00 - 17:00.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/info-events/openhouse/.
11.8.2005
- ESO Press Release 21/05: Rubble-Pile Minor Planet Sylvia and Her Twins - VLT NACO Instrument Helps Discover First Triple Asteroid.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-21-05.html.
10.8.2005
- ESO Press Photos 24/05: Midsummer's Dream Galaxies - Images of Two Magnificent Spiral Galaxies from ESO Data Archive.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/phot-24-05.html.
01.8.2005
- ESO Press Release 20/05: VLT Enables Most Accurate Distance Measurement to Spiral Galaxy NGC 300: An international team of astronomers from Chile, Europe and North America [1] is announcing the most accurate distance yet measured to a galaxy beyond our Milky Way's close neighbours. The distance was determined using the brightness variation of a type of stars known as "Cepheid variables".
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-20-05.html.
14.7.2005
- ESO Press Release 19/05: Ten days after part of the Deep Impact spacecraft plunged onto Comet Tempel 1 with the aim to create a crater and expose pristine material from beneath the surface, astronomers are back in the ESO Offices in Santiago, after more than a week of observing at the ESO La Silla Paranal Observatory.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-19-05.html.
14.7.2005
- ESO Press Release 18/05: New Sub-Millimetre Light in the Desert - APEX telescope Sees First Light at Chajnantor.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-18-05.html.
05.7.2005
- On the night of July 4, 2005, all ESO telescopes continued their extensive observing campaign of Comet Tempel 1. But this time, they were able to see the effect of the impact on the comet. The astronomers were clearly not disappointed.
Take a look at: http://deepimpact.eso.org/obseso8.html.
03.7.2005
- The Deep Impact campaign at ESO has entered its final phase. Last night, July 2, 2005, the team of astronomers from Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, France, Germany and Italy used all four 8.2m Unit Telescopes of the VLT on Paranal and the three main telescopes on La Silla to simultaneously observe Comet 9P/Tempel 1. They will continue to do so for one week.
Take a look at: http://deepimpact.eso.org/obseso6.html.
01.7.2005
- Three days before the NASA Deep Impact spacecraft will collide with Comet 9P/Tempel 1, most astronomers who will use all ESO telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile, have now arrived at their respective duty station and are carefully putting the last hand to the preparation of their observations.
Take a look at: http://deepimpact.eso.org/obseso5.html.
01.7.2005
- Observers using ESO telescopes will not only make nice and detailed images of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 before and after the impact. They also perform complete spectroscopic analyses, to study the composition of the cometary material.
Take a look at: http://deepimpact.eso.org/.
01.7.2005
- ESO Messenger No. 120 (June 2005; 60pp). Highlights: M. Capaccioli et al.: The VLT Survey Telescope; F. Pont et al.: Transiting Extra-Solar Planets; F. Pepe et al.: On the Track of Very Low-Mass Planets with HARPS; S. Gillessen et al.: First Science with SINFONI.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/pubs/messenger/.
30.6.2005
- ESO Press Photos 20/05: Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, Remi Cabanac and his European colleagues have discovered an amazing cosmic mirage, known to scientists as an Einstein Ring. This cosmic mirage, dubbed FOR J0332-3557, is seen towards the southern constellation Fornax (the Furnace), and is remarkable on at least two counts. First, it is a bright, almost complete Einstein ring. Second, it is the farthest ever found.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/phot-20-05.html.
29.6.2005
- APEX is a novel 12m submillimeter telescope at an altitude of 5100 m on the Llano de Chajnantor in Chile, operated by a consortium consisting of MPIfR, the European Southern Observatory and the Onsala Space Observatory. Commissioning of the telescope and the first facility instrument, the APEX-2a receiver, is foreseen to be completed by mid of July 2005. APEX invites the interested community to participate in the science verification of the facility, which will likely take place in the second half of July 2005.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/projects/apex/APEX-ScienceVerification2.pdf.
10.6.2005
- On 93 pages (11 MBytes) developments in and around ESO during the year of 2004 are presented.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/pubs/ann-rep/ann-report2004.pdf.
09.6.2005
- ESO Press Release 17/05: British scientists have opened a new window on the Universe with the recent commissioning of the Visitor Instrument ULTRACAM on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-17-05.html.
07.6.2005
- ESO Press Release 16/05: ESO Receives Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Award in Science Category.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-16-05.html.
30.5.2005
- ESO Press Release 15/05: ESO Telescopes Take Snapshot of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 in Readiness for Major Observation Campaign.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-15-05.html.
16.5.2005
- ESO Press Release 14/05: Dutch Minister of Science Visits ESO Facilities in Chile.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-14-05.html.
30.4.2005
- Today, at the Annual Meeting of the US National Academy of Sciences, ESO's Director General, Dr. Catherine Cesarsky, is officially inducted into this highly prestigious society.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-13-05.html.
30.4.2005
- ESO Press Release 12/05: Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-12-05.html.
27.4.2005
- ESO Press Release 11/05: Thousand Papers and Counting
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-11-05.html.
22.4.2005
- ESO Press Photo 12/05: Striking Image of Nebula N214C taken with ESO's NTT at La Silla.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/phot-12-05.html.
20.4.2005
- ESO Press Release 10/05: Today Europe's seven major intergovernmental research organisations, working together in the EIROforum partnership, presented their comprehensive paper on science policy, "Towards a Europe of Knowledge and Innovation".
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-10-05.html.
07.4.2005
- ESO Press Release 09/05: New Young Sub-stellar Companion Imaged with the VLT. - Astronomers observed GQ Lupi on 25 June 2004 with the adaptive optics instrument NACO attached to Yepun, the fourth 8.2-m Unit Telescope of the Very Large Telescope located on top of Cerro Paranal (Chile). The series of NACO exposures clearly reveal the presence of the tiny companion, located in the close vicinity of the star.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-09-05.html.
30.3.2005
- Report of the ESA-ESO working group on Extra-Solar Planets is now available for download (94pp, 1 MByte). This Report of the ESA-ESO working group on Extra-Solar Planets, produced by the first joint ESA-ESO working group (Chairman: M. Perryman ESA, Co-chair: O. Hainaut, ESO), summarises the direction of exo-planet research that can be expected over the next 10 years or so, identifies the roles of the major facilities of the two organisations in the field, and concludes with some recommendations which may assist development of the field.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/pubs/esaesowg/.
24.3.2005
- ESO Messenger 119 is now available for download (68pp, 8 MBytes). Highlights: Scientific Strategy Planning at ESO; Observing with the ESO VLT Interferometer; VISIR, a Taste of Scientific Potential; Comparison of Science Metrics among Observatories.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/pubs/messenger/.
22.3.2005
- ESO Press Release 08/05: Until now, super star clusters were only known to exist very far away, mostly in pairs or groups of interacting galaxies. Now, however, a team of European astronomers have used ESO's telescopes to uncover such a monster object within our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, almost, but not quite, in our own backyard!
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-08-05.html.
15.3.2005
- ESO Press Release 07/05: On the basis of stellar spectra totalling more than 200 hours of effective exposure time with the 8.2-m VLT Kueyen telescope at Paranal (Chile), a team of astronomers has made a surprising discovery about the stars in the giant southern globular cluster Omega Centauri.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-07-05.html.
14.3.2005
- ESO Press Release 06/05: The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at Paranal Observatory has just seen another extension of its already impressive capabilities by combining interferometrically the light from two relocatable 1.8-m Auxiliary Telescopes.
Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-06-05.html.
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