Announcements 2010

ann1022 — Announcement

ESO releases ESOcast 17 about ALMA Construction

28 May 2010: High on the Chajnantor plateau in the Chilean Andes, work progresses at a frantic pace for building the Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array (ALMA), which, in a few years from now, will consist of at least 66 antennas, working together at an altitude of 5000 metres. Once completed, ALMA will ...
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ann1021 — Announcement

ESO Director General Visits Austrian Minister of Science

25 May 2010: ESO Director General Tim de Zeeuw and astrophysicist Sabine Schindler visited the Austrian Minister of Science and Research, Beatrix Karl, on 21 May 2010.Minister Karl said she appreciated Austria’s participation in ESO projects, which include the Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the European Extremely Large Telescope project that is ...
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ann1020 — Announcement

European Award Named After Former ESO Director General

18 May 2010: The European Astronomical Society (EAS) has created a new award to honour astronomers of outstanding scientific distinction. The award is named after Professor Lodewijk Woltjer, one of Europe’s outstanding astronomers of the second half of the twentieth century, and ESO Director General from 1975 till 1988. Under his leadership ESO ...
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ann1019 — Announcement

Café & Kosmos

17 May 2010: A New Series of Astronomy Cafés Start in Munich If you have ever wanted to discuss the hottest topics of physics and astronomy with scientists in a relaxed atmosphere, now is your chance (provided you speak German). ESO, together with the Excellence Cluster Universe and the Max-Planck Institutes for Physics, ...
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ann1018 — Announcement

Tycho Brahe Prize 2010 Awarded to ESO Telescope Designer

21 April 2010: The European Astronomical Society [1] announces that this year’s winner of its Tycho Brahe Prize is the British optical engineer Dr Raymond Wilson. The Tycho Brahe Prize is awarded annually in recognition of the development or exploitation of European instruments, or major discoveries based largely on such instruments. It carries ...
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ann1017 — Announcement

Solar eclipse in Chile: Paranal will open its doors every weekend in July 2010

12 April 2010: People traveling from all over the world to Easter Island, Chile, to witness the total solar eclipse on 11 July 2010, now have the chance to add another astronomical destination to their route. ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the world’s most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory, will offer guided visits to ...
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ann1016 — Announcement

ESO Messenger No. 139 is available for download

23 March 2010: ESO Messenger No. 139 is available for download on http://www.eso.org/sci/publications/messenger/
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ann1015 — Announcement

Successfully establishing new Research Infrastructures

22 March 2010: EIROforum members share their expertise In a position paper presented at the European Conference on Research Infrastructures today, EIROforum, of which ESO is a member, presents the main challenges encountered by research infrastructure projects and offers to support and help new European research infrastructures to become world-class facilities for scientific ...
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ann1014 — Announcement

ESO employees engaged in "Solidarity Mission" in Chile

9 March 2010: Supported by the ESO Chile Solidarity Group, a “solidarity mission” involving ESO and Gemini South Observatory employees has been actively and successfully helping the people in Pelluhue area, on the coast of the Maule region in Chile. The region was one of the most affected by the magnitude 8.8 earthquake ...
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ann1013 — Announcement

E-ELT Site Selection Advisory Committee Recommends Cerro Armazones in Chile

4 March 2010: ESO Council delegates met in Committee on 2–3 March 2010 and discussed the process for adoption of a baseline reference site for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). This will enable the successful conclusion of the detailed design of the telescope with the goal of preparing a proposal for construction ...
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ann1012 — Announcement

A Muse for the Very Large Telescope

1 March 2010: The first components for the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), a second generation instrument for ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), are beginning to arrive. MUSE is an innovative 3D spectrograph with a wide field of view, providing simultaneous spectra of numerous adjacent regions in the sky. Such spectrographs are efficient ...
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ann1011 — Announcement

Update to Visiting Astronomers with planned trips to ESO observatories

28 February 2010: Update as of 8 March 17:30 CET:The operations of the Santiago de Chile airport are steadily improving to a point that we are now expecting only minor perturbations of both domestic and international flights to/from Santiago in the days to come. As a result, we would like to inform all ...
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ann1010 — Announcement

ESO Expresses Support for Victims of Chile Earthquake; No Damage to ESO Observatories

28 February 2010: A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck central Chile at 03:34 local time (07:34 CET) on Saturday 27 February 2010. The epicentre was 115 km north-northeast of the city of Concepción and 325 km south-west of the capital Santiago. The earthquake has caused significant casualties and damage in the country. ESO expresses ...
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ann1009 — Announcement

ESO Call for Proposals for Period 86 released. Deadline is 31 March 2010

26 February 2010: ESO Call for Proposals for Period 86 released. Deadline is 31 March 2010.
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ann1008 — Announcement

Around the World in 80 Telescopes is first runner up in IYA2009/Mani Bhaumik Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Education and Public Outreach

26 February 2010: The Around the World in 80 Telescopes webcast has been awarded the first runner-up position in the IYA2009/Mani Bhaumik Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Education and Public Outreach. Around the World in 80 Telescopes was a record-breaking and unprecedented, live, 24-hour public webcast featuring most of the research-grade astronomical observatories ...
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ann1007 — Announcement

ESO videos are now available for subtitling in your own language

18 February 2010: Would you like to see our astronomy outreach videos, such as the ESOcast video podcasts, subtitled in your own language? We are now uploading our videos to dotSUB, where members of the public can contribute subtitle translations. We want to bring the excitement of ESO astronomy to an even wider ...
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ann1006 — Announcement

European Young Scientist Prizewinner Visits ESO Facilities in Chile

17 February 2010: Julian Petrasch, the 17-year-old German student who won the special ESO prize at the 21st European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS), enjoyed the trip of a lifetime to two of ESO’s observatories in Chile from 7–13 February 2010. In Julian’s winning project, “Sky Alignment Simulator (SAMS) — improved determination ...
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ann1005 — Announcement

World's Most Precise Stellar Spectrograph Gets Polarised Vision

15 February 2010: The very successful HARPS spectrograph, attached to ESO's 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla, Chile, has just been enhanced with a new capability: the world's most precise polarimeter for the study of stars. Polarisation describes the preferential direction in which light vibrates as it travels and it is measured with a ...
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ann1004 — Announcement

"Noticias del Universo" travels to Northern Chile

21 January 2010: How have human beings been able to interpret information coming from space? That is the question that the itinerant exhibition Noticias del Universo (News from the Universe) answers, showing different tools developed throughout history to learn about the “invisible” world around us. Beginning from the simple telescope used by Galileo ...
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ann1003 — Announcement

Voices from the Universe book launched at ESO Chile

20 January 2010: A new book Voices from the Universe, written by poet Margarita Schultz and astronomer María Teresa Ruiz, includes spectacular astronomical images from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). As the celebrations of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 come to their end, the book Voices from the Universe was presented on ...
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