Dear Friends,
October was a busy month at ESO! We had a great time during our Open House Day event and we hope you did too. If you weren’t in the area, check out the timelapse video of the E-ELT mirror mock-up here and see more details about the event here.
The Communicating Astronomy with the Public Conference in Beijing, China also gave us the chance to meet up with many of you and exchange ideas on how we can adapt our outreach efforts to the new media landscape. To quote IAU Commision 55 President Dennis Crabtree, “the main topics of the conference were: audience, readability, Global Astronomy Month, Venus Transit 2012 and Outrageous Outreach”. Watch this space for the presentations that will be uploaded next month.
The 5th of October also marked the 49th anniversary of ESO. Preparations are ongoing for next year, when we will be celebrating 50 years of reaching new heights in astronomy! Stay close for partnership opportunities during our anniversary year.
Don’t forget that ePOD occasionally distributes outreach products via postal mail. If you would like to be on our distribution list please consider providing a complete postal address and other information via this form.
Let’s reach new heights in astronomy together,
Lars Lindberg Christensen (lars@eso.org)
Head ESO education and Public Outreach Department
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21 October 2011: In a ceremony at the Chilean Consulate General in Hamburg, Germany, the Consul General, Eduardo Schott, awarded the rank of Commander of the Order of Bernardo O’Higgins to Hans-Emil Schuster ...
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19 October 2011: Los Universos de Matta (Matta’s Universes) is a new exhibition inaugurated at the University of Santiago (USACH) Planetarium on 13 October 2011. Inspired by the work of the multifaceted Chilean ...
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19 October 2011: On Saturday 15 October 2011 ESO opened the doors of its headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany, to the public. Throughout the day, thousands of visitors had the chance to ...
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12 October 2011: For a German version, click here. The European Southern Observatory has lined up a series of exciting activities for the Open House Day 2011, scheduled for 15 October, between 11:00 ...
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6 October 2011: Although it is invisible, and has so far never been directly detected, dark matter dominates the Universe. Without this mysterious substance the motion of stars around the centres of ...
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4 October 2011: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". One half of the prize goes to ...
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3 October 2011: The most complex ground-based astronomical observatory in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a telescope that is still ...
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3 October 2011: The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the United Kingdom is making £3.5 million (about 4 million euros) in funding available over the next two years for UK astronomers ...
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19 October 2011: On Saturday 15 October 2011 ESO opened the doors of its headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany, to the public. Throughout the day, thousands of visitors had the chance to ...
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| View and/or download |
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3 October 2011: The most complex ground-based astronomy observatory in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a telescope still under construction, ...
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| View and/or download |
