Dear Fellow Communicators,
This month we’ll be launching a follow-up to the Pale Red Dot campaign. Stay tuned for the announcement planned for 19 June! You will again have the opportunity to witness real science done in real time, and this time with an interesting twist.
The past month has seen almost incredible progress for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, which is quickly advancing towards its first light in 2024. Here is a quick timeline of recent events:
We invite you to also fly into the ELT with this new epic UHD video that for the first time show you the real scale of this gigantic telescope.
Another noteworthy video comes from a partnership between CNRS Images and ESO: a documentary about MUSE, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer. MUSE, The Cosmic Time Machine takes a detailed look at one of the latest and the biggest second-generation instruments installed on Yepun (UT4), at ESO’s Very Large Telescope.
If you are working with secondary-school students, invite them to apply for the ESO Astronomy Winter Camp. Applications to attend this event, which is highly praised every year by participants, are open until 23:00 CET on 11 October 2017.
If you work in or with industry, be sure to check out the Big Science Business Forum, where ESO is going to be present.
Don’t forget that registration, abstract submission and grants are open for the Communicating Astronomy with the Public Conference 2018, the largest conference of its kind in the world.
Finally, we would like to welcome Alberto Ghizzi Panizza as an ESO Photo Ambassador. Alberto is recognised as one of the top Italian photographers. Read more about his incredible portfolio on our Photo Ambassadors’ webpage.
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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13 June 2017: The ESO Annual Report 2016 is now available. It presents an overview of ESO’s many activities throughout the year.
The contents include:
Research highlights from ESO facilities, with the ...
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12 June 2017:
Up to now ESO’s giant telescope project has been referred to as the European Extremely Large Telescope or E-ELT, but this name, which was always intended to be interim ...
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5 June 2017: The Big Science Business Forum 2018 (BSBF2018) aims to be the first one-stop-shop for European businesses and other stakeholders to learn about the future investments and procurements coming from Europe ...
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9 May 2017: The Australian Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Senator the Hon Arthur Sinodinos, has announced his Government’s intention to open negotiations with ESO on a strategic partnership that would ...
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11 May 2017: Steven Wilson, British musician and record producer, visited the Paranal and ALMA Observatories to shoot video footage for a song from his forthcoming album “To the Bone”.
At ESO’s ...
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14 June 2017: The video is available in 4K UHD.
The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The ESOcast Light episodes ...
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8 June 2017: ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block of life.
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30 May 2017: The video is available in 4K UHD.
The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The ESOcast Light episodes ...
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26 May 2017: The first stone ceremony for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope has taken place at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, in the presence of the President of Chile.
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22 May 2017: The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The ESOcast Light episodes will not be replacing the standard, longer ...
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