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july 27, 2017 - e.s.o.

A Tale of Three Stellar Cities

Using new observations from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, astronomers have discovered three different populations of young stars within the Orion Nebula Cluster. This unexpected discovery adds very valu...

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july 19, 2017 - e.s.o.

Eyes Wide Open for MASCARA in Chile - Exoplanet hunter sees first light at ESO’s La Silla Observatory

The #mascara (Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA) station at ESO’s #lasillaobservatory in Chile has achieved first light. This new facility will seek out transiting exoplanets as they pass in front of their br...

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july 13, 2017

EVE Online Joins Search for Real Exoplanets With Project Discovery

– Citizen #science Allows Virtual Universe to Explore Real Universe – CCP Games has added the ability for players of its massively multiplayer online game EVE Online to help search for distant planets...

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july 07, 2017 - e.s.o.

ESOcast 116: OPC 100

To astronomers, ESO’s state-of-the-art telescopes are not just about collecting pretty pictures, however alluring they may be; they are tools to collect data, through which remarkable discoveries are ...

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july 05, 2017 - e.s.o.

Dazzling Spiral with an Active Heart

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a magnificent face-on view of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77. The image does justice to the galaxy’s beauty, showcasing its glittering arms criss-cro...

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june 30, 2017 - e.s.o.

Astronomers Build the Most Advanced Observatory in the World from LEGO®

It took some of the brightest minds in science and technology to build ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, one of the largest and most sophisticated telescope facilities in the world. Now Dutch astron...

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june 19, 2017 - e.s.o.

Red Dots: The Live Search for Terrestrial Planets around Proxima Centauri Continues

The team behind the Pale Red Dot campaign, who last year discovered a planet around the closest star to our Sun (eso1629), are resuming their search for Earth-like planets and launching another initia...

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june 19, 2017 - e.s.o.

ESOcast 112: Catching Starlight

Capturing and recording the (often very faint) light from the heavens has always been an essential aspect of astronomy. The very first astronomical “detector” was, of course, the unaided human eye — a...

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june 15, 2017 - Hubble Telescope

Jackpot! Cosmic Magnifying-Glass Effect Captures Universe's Brightest Galaxies

Galaxies Shine with the Brilliance of up to 100 Trillion SunsAstronomers were fascinated in the 1980s with the discovery of nearby dustenshrouded galaxies that glowed thousands of times brighter than...

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june 15, 2017 - e.s.o.

Winner of Summer AstroCamp 2017 Bursary Announced

The winner of the AstroCamp 2017 bursary offered by #eso has now been selected from almost 100 applications from about a dozen countries. #eso is delighted to announce that #evaforrest from the Unite...

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june 15, 2017 - e.s.o.

Science in School: Issue 40 Now Available

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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june 14, 2017 - e.s.o.

VST Captures Three-In-One

Two of the sky’s more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbour in this enormous new three gigapixel image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies the faint, glow...

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june 08, 2017 - e.s.o.

ALMA Finds Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-like Stars

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. This is the first ever detection of this prebio...

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may 31, 2017 - e.s.o.

ESO Signs Contracts for the ELT’s Gigantic Primary Mirror

Contracts for the manufacture of the 39-metre primary mirror of ESO’s #extremelylargetelescope (ELT) were signed today at a ceremony at ESO’s Headquarters near Munich. The German company SCHOTT will p...

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may 29, 2017 - e.s.o.

First Stone Ceremony for ESO's Extremely Large Telescope. Start of ELT dome and telescope construction

A ceremony marking the first stone of ESO’s #extremelylargetelescope (ELT) has been attended today by the President of the Republic of Chile, #michellebachelet Jeria. The event was held at ESO’s Paran...

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