Dear Fellow Communicators,
We hope you had a relaxing time during the summer holidays and are now back in the office, ready for a great end to the year 2017. We are getting more and more excited — and a bit nervous — about the opening of the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre this coming spring. Things are, however, progressing well. The gigantic wall images in the exhibition are being mounted (1000s of square metres!), and on Friday last week we took over the planetarium. We invite you to subscribe to the ESO Supernova Newsletter to stay up to date with the progress of this great project.
This month we have launched the much-awaited ESOblog. This is a channel that has been on our wish list for years, but because of limited resources we were not able to launch it until now! We will use the blog to promote all the interesting science and technology coming from ESO, as well as the fascinating ESO people and their stories. We invite you to subscribe and to give us a hand spreading the news.
The Red Dots project continues to collect data from our exoplanet hunter at La Silla, HARPS, in the search for exoplanets around some of the closest stars to our Solar System. If you check out our Picture of the Week for this week you will see the latest radial velocity measurements of Proxima Centauri. While the signal from the exoplanet Proxima b remains strong, there is an additional intriguing signal that may be from a second planet or maybe due to stellar activity — we cannot yet tell for sure. This is a real open notebook science experiment! Follow the Red Dots journey on Facebook, on Twitter, via the hashtag #RedDots, or on their blog and don’t forget you can contribute your own observations!
Before you go, check out these new IAU themes: Our Moon: the Moon, Meteors & Meteorites and IAU Member Statistics.
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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12 September 2017: From almost 300 entries, both photos and timelapses, spread across more than 40 countries, the nine winners of the 2017 Photo NightScape Awards, a competition supported by ESO, have now ...
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1 September 2017: ESO now has a blog: the ESOblog! The project aims to share with readers from all walks of life day to day stories from the world’s most productive ground-based ...
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1 September 2017: ESO’s new Director General, Xavier Barcons, gives his perspective on ESO, astronomy, and his new position.
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24 August 2017: In ESOcast 124 ESO’s outgoing Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, gives us his thoughts and reflections on a decade at ESO.
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23 August 2017: Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer astronomers have constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the first map ...
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16 August 2017: Observations of “Jellyfish galaxies” with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. It seems the mechanism that produces the tentacles of gas ...
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