Dear Fellow Communicators,
We invite you to follow a live hunt for exoplanets around Proxima Centauri! The Red Dots project is a follow-up to the Pale Red Dot campaign that discovered the closest exoplanet to our Solar System, Proxima b. Astronomers think Proxima Centauri is hiding more secrets and they invite you to join them in uncovering its mysteries.
Follow their journey on Facebook, on their Twitter account, via the hashtag #RedDots, or on their blog. You can watch this short ESOcast Light episode to get a glimpse of the project.
Another exciting ongoing science project is #AttemptingTheImpossible. As part of an ambitious experiment involving telescopes around the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is attempting to image something never-before-seen: a black hole. Two new blog posts reveal How to build an Earth-sized radio telescope and answer the question What is Sagittarius A*?
If you’re an instagrammer, we have good news! You can now enjoy our most beautiful and interesting images of the Universe on Instagram. Follow us!
When you’re not connected online but instead back in the analogue world, check out our new ESO ballpoint pen. Whether you're jotting down a grocery list or writing about the stars, it will do a stellar job.
Don’t forget that if you’re working with secondary school students, you can invite them to apply for the ESO Astronomy Winter Camp. Applications are open until 23:00 CET on 11 October 2017.
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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15 June 2017: The latest issue of the free magazine Science in School is now available online and in printed form. This European journal for science teachers offers up-to-date information on cutting-edge science ...
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7 July 2017: ESOcast 116 explores how astronomers request time to use an ESO telescope, and how ESO’s Observing Programmes Committee, embarking on its one-hundredth meeting, examines and judges these proposals in order ...
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5 July 2017: ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a magnificent face-on view of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77. But there is more to this galaxy than meets the eye. This ...
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29 June 2017: One of the world’s most sophisticated observatories has now been recreated as a mind-boggling LEGO® model.
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19 June 2017: In 2016 the Pale Red Dot team discovered a planet around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun. Using ESO’s exoplanet hunter, HARPS, they are about to continue the ...
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16 June 2017: Capturing and recording the light from the heavens has always been an essential aspect of astronomy. In this episode, we’re going to delve into the history of the sensors that ...
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