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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ESO has awarded a multi-million euro contract to the international company Teledyne e2v to design and produce a set of Large Visible Sensor Modules for use on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Sche...
An extension of the agreement between the partners of the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) has been signed, ensuring that this very productive collaboration will continue until the end of 2022. Th...
© Copyright 2024