Dear Fellow Communicators,
You are hereby invited to participate in the workshop entitled Public Awareness of Research Infrastructures — Expectations — Experiences — Examples. We encourage Public Relations officers, journalists, scientists and other professionals in the field to share their experiences by giving a talk. Please submit your abstracts by 1 March 2015 if you wish to share your view. The workshop is organised by the Association of European-level Research Infrastructure Facilities (ERF-AISBL), Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (Technical University Munich) and ESO. The event will take place at ESO Headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany. You can find more details here.
This month we have two exciting ESA/Hubble outreach campaigns that we’d like to draw your attention to:
- The Hubble 25th Anniversary Image Unveiling is a campaign that invites European-based science centres, museums, planetariums, nature centres and other informal education venues to apply to receive one free high-quality print of the anniversary image. Applicants are encouraged to use the coordinated unveiling to organise their own events to celebrate the anniversary. Find out more details here.
- The Ode to Hubble competition is aimed at the general public who are invited to submit short videos in order to win two sections of Hubble’s solar array mounted in perspex, among other prizes. Organised on the occasion of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th anniversary, the competition invites anyone inspired by Hubble to express their feelings or share their ideas in a creative and innovative way.
Keep an eye on the #Hubble25 anniversary web page for more updates on our activities this year!
We are happy to announce that the winner of the European Astronomy Journalism Prize has been selected. We would like to congratulate Louise Mayor, features editor of Physics World, who won the first prize for the article “Hunting Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars”, published in the October 2014 issue. You can read more about her article and the other highly commended journalists in our announcement below.
We would like to introduce you to our newest ESO Photo Ambassador, Gregory Lambert! Born in 1986 in Switzerland, Gregory studied microtechnology at the Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion in Yverdon-les-Bains. After his studies, he worked for three years at ESO’s La Silla Observatory as a technician at the Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope. Read more about him here.
Our Journey to the Centre of the Milky Way planetarium mini-show has been listed on the Fulldome Database website, where you will find many useful resources for planetariums. The IAU constellation charts are another handy resource. Our free, 4k, fully downloadable fulldome clip collection is growing week by week:
If you don't want to miss any of the many Fulldome videos we have in the pipeline, we invite you to subscribe to our Fulldome RSS feeds:
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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10 February 2015: ESO would like to extend a warm welcome to our 100 000th Facebook friend and a thank you to everyone who has become our friend on Facebook and, in doing ...
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4 February 2015: The Board of Education for the German Astronomical Society, in collaboration with ESO and the Excellence Cluster Universe of the Technical University of Munich, is organising a two-day teacher-training workshop ...
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