Dear Fellow Communicators,
February can be a quiet month, but this year that’s not the case for us at ESO. Activity and excitement are building up with just 70 days left until the ESO Supernova opens. We are all working hard getting everything ready and organising a series of events to mark the opening of the centre. We will tell you more about these events in the next edition.
Meanwhile, our ESOshop has some new products to check out:
These products will be available in the ESO Supernova shop as well.
CAPjournal 23 has been released. We are happy to announce that we have handed over the publishing of CAPjournal to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO). After more than 10 years work at ESO supporting the CAPjournal, it has moved to a new home at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). We wish our colleagues the best of luck and lots of editions full of useful content for our community!
We’re delighted to announce that ESO has become a partner organisation of the Starmus Festival — a combination of science, art and music that has featured presentations from astronauts, cosmonauts, Nobel Prize winners and other prominent figures from science, culture, the arts and music.
Don’t forget about some of the currently open opportunities:
Last, but definitely not least, if you are a PhD Student or know someone who is, check out this video presenting the ESO Studentship programme. Applications will open soon and we encourage you not to miss the opportunity to fast-track your career at ESO. Learn more details here.
Let’s reach new heights in astronomy together!
Lars Lindberg Christensen (lars@eso.org)
Head, ESO education and Public Outreach Department (ePOD)
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9 February 2018: The 23rd issue of the Communicating Astronomy with the Public journal is out now!
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1 February 2018: ESO invites you to take part in AstroCamera 2018 — an international competition in support of popularising astronomy and astrophotography. The competition is organised by the Hewelianum Centre in Gdańsk, Poland ...
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19 January 2018: The winners of the 2017 Catch a Star Contest have been announced. ESO is providing each of the top five places with a mounted image of a particularly fascinating astronomical ...
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Interview with: Max Rößner
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Interview with: Markus Wittkowski
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Interview with: Federico Lelli
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Interview with: Olivier Hainaut
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Interview with: Julien Milli
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13 February 2018: The ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has used the combined light of all four of the 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes for the first time. Combining light from ...
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5 February 2018: A new study has found that the seven planets orbiting the nearby ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 are all made mostly of rock, and some could potentially hold more water than ...
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2 February 2018: In ESOcast 149 we hear from some of ESO’s current students about their experience at ESO, and they offer their advice to those considering following in their footsteps.
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31 January 2018: In the star-forming region Lupus 3, in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion), dazzlingly hot stars are born from collapsing masses of gas and dust.
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24 January 2018: A new national facility at ESO’s La Silla Observatory has successfully made its first observations. The ExTrA telescopes will search for and study Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby red dwarf stars. ...
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