Dear Fellow Communicators,
Our goal is to make the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre the first open-source planetarium in the world. This is why we are currently working hard to finalise as many resources as possible for the 2017 opening. And if you think that a year is too long to wait to start making use of this unique world-class resource, we agree! The ESO Supernova team did not want to wait either, and many of the products are already available for you to download.
These include our fulldome clips archive, the updated version of the From Earth to the Universe show, where we recently added new audio tracks to the growing list of languages, our 360-degree panoramas and the growing music archive. We also have a new type of fulldome clips for Video Jockeying (VJ) use, to enrich the audience’s experience at music events in planetariums. As usual we will continue to update our Planetarium web page on the ESO Supernova web site with material that you can use for free in your planetarium.
If you are wondering how to keep in touch with us, this newsletter is one option, but we have also released the first edition of the ESO Supernova Public Newsletter (subscribe here), and we have published a webpage with all our ESO Supernova social media channels — just two other ways in which you can stay in touch with the project.
We are also pleased to introduce to you one of our most recent networks: the ESO Music Ambassadors! These are composers who have donated their music for us to use in our products that we then release to the public.
You have probably heard about Proxima b — a major finding we announced at the end of August. A team of astronomers from the Pale Red Dot project used ESO telescopes and other facilities to find clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. If you missed the news you can read all about it here. See the blog for in-depth articles about the discovery, and the Reddit AskScience session that we organised. Astronomers behind the project took the time to answer the most popular questions people had about Proxima b.
Finally, we close this newsletter with two tips:
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Facebook has again changed the algorithm by which people see your organisation’s stories on their timeline. In summary, your organisation posts are now less likely to be seen by its Facebook friends than before, unless you convince your friends to make a setting change called “See First”. You can refer to our See ESO first posts to see how you can implement a similar call to action on your page.
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Don’t forget to buy your copy of the ESO Calendar 2017! We will run out soon.
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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