Dear Fellow Communicators,
This month we have opened the #MeetESO competition, where we invite social media enthusiasts from ESON countries to compete for the eight available places for our second social media gathering. This will take place in Chile, where the group will visit all our sites: La Silla Observatory, Paranal Observatory, including a possible visit to the site of the Extremely Large Telescope, and finally ALMA Observatory. The event is scheduled to coincide with the 2019 total solar eclipse, visible from La Silla Observatory, #LaSillaTSE.
Those interested in applying should do so by 15 November 2018. More information is available on our dedicated #MeetESO webpage.
During the course of November we will launch another public competition to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Chile to view the eclipse. This competition will be open to citizens of ESO Member States. Stay tuned here or on our webpage for further details.
Our 2019 ESO Calendar is finally here. If you’re looking for one for yourself or as I gift, hurry up, as this is our most popular product in the ESOshop.
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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26 October 2018: ESO is organising its second social media gathering in Chile, to coincide with the 2019 total solar eclipse, visible from La Silla Observatory, #LaSillaTSE. We invite social media enthusiasts from ...
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25 October 2018: Simetría, a new ambitious residential Science-Art exchange programme, allows artists to carry out their artistic enquiry in relation to astronomy and particle physics at some of the world’s most ...
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24 October 2018: The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the results of its hugely popular, global photographic competition, a yearly contest to find the most beautiful and spectacular visions of the cosmos.
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23 October 2018: The winner of the ESO-offered bursary for the Winter AstroCamp 2018 has now been selected from 95 applications from 15 countries. ESO is delighted to announce that James Weyringer, an ...
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Interview with: Gert Finger
26 October 2018: The detectors used on ESO’s telescopes are among the best in the world, and without them, ESO would not be able to provide the astronomical community with the amazing facilities ...
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Interview with: Christine Desbordes
19 October 2018: ESO designs, constructs and operates the most powerful ground-based telescopes in the world, which places significant demands on resources, including energy. ESO’s observatories are located in Chile’s isolated Atacama Desert, ...
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Interview with: Valentina Schettini
12 October 2018: Valentina Schettini is part of the team of science content writers at the ESO Supernova & Planetarium Centre. In this week’s ESOblog post she tells us about her role in ...
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Rosa Jesse and Nicole Shearer
5 October 2018: On 20 September 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved the name Taltal for a crater on Mars. In part due to its striking resemblance, the Martian Taltal was named ...
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Xavier Barcons
28 September 2018: Greetings and welcome once more to the ESOblog!
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31 October 2018: ESO’s exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre of the Milky Way. New observations show ...
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24 October 2018: This vivid picture of an active star forming region — NGC 2467, otherwise known as the Skull and Crossbones nebula — is as sinister as it is beautiful. This image ...
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17 October 2018: An international team of astronomers using the VIMOS instrument of ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered a colossal structure in the early Universe. This galaxy proto-supercluster — which they nickname ...
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1 October 2018: Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding distant galaxies. The exquisite sensitivity of MUSE allowed for ...
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