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ann13038 — Announcement

ASTRONET Workshop on Astronomy Education and Public Outreach

2 May 2013: On 17 and 18 June 2013 a workshop entitled Astronomy Education & Public Outreach: the European perspective will take place. It is organised by the ASTRONET Task 5.3 Working Group, made up of representatives from several European scientific organisations and chaired by ESO. The workshop’s main objective is to evaluate the ...

ann13037 — Announcement

Danish Industry Day at ESO

30 April 2013: On 16 May 2013, ESO will host an industry event for a Danish business delegation at its headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany. This meeting will provide representatives of Danish companies and institutions with information about ESO and the potential opportunities that are available to take part in ESO’s industrial ...

ann13036 — Announcement

ESOcast 56: Gentle Giants in the Desert

29 April 2013: For our newest ESOcast, we pose this puzzle: how do you move a 100-tonne giant ALMA antenna 30 kilometres up onto the oxygen-starved Chajnantor Plateau, 5000 metres above sea level and finish the job with millimetre precision? Thankfully we have Otto and Lore, the cutting-edge ALMA transporters. The numbers are ...

ann13035 — Announcement

Café & Kosmos 24 April 2013

23 April 2013: With Dr Dietrich Baade (ESO) This theme complements the question of whether there is extraterrestrial life. Although life formed on Earth over three and a half billion years ago and has since then occupied almost all the available ecological niches in the biosphere, it is not at all obvious that ...

ann13034 — Announcement

CAPjournal Issue 13 Now Available

16 April 2013: The 13th issue of Communicating Astronomy with the Public (the CAPjournal) is out now! Do you want to find out more — topics range from the cardinal rules of science writing to the most up-to-date research on astronomy communication? Sarah Reed, former science editor of the Universe Awareness project and ...

ann13033 — Announcement

Denmark Confirms Participation in E-ELT

12 April 2013: Representatives of Denmark have confirmed that their country will participate in the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) programme. Twelve ESO Member States have now joined the E-ELT programme. Denmark joined the organisation in 1967, as the first new Member State three years after ESO’s foundation. The newly announced investment amounts to 8.5 ...

ann13032 — Announcement

Fernando Comerón becomes ESO Representative in Chile

2 April 2013: Yesterday, 1 April 2013, European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomer Fernando Comerón became ESO’s new Representative in Chile. He replaces Massimo Tarenghi, who has been ESO Representative since 2008. “I’d like to build on the deep relationship of trust and mutual benefit that ESO has developed with Chile throughout the years. ...

ann13031 — Announcement

ESO Releases The Messenger No. 151

20 March 2013: The latest edition of ESO’s quarterly journal, The Messenger, is now available online. Find out the latest news from ESO on topics ranging from new instruments to the latest science discoveries. Highlights of this edition include: A report on six years of science with TAROT at the La Silla Observatory. ...

ann13030 — Announcement

2013 Tycho Brahe Prize Awarded to Massimo Tarenghi

19 March 2013: The European Astronomical Society has awarded the 2013 Tycho Brahe Prize to Massimo Tarenghi, in recognition of his central role in the development of the European Southern Observatory facilities that have resulted in Europeʼs world-leading role in ground-based astronomy. The Tycho Brahe Prize recognises outstanding use and development of European ...

ann13029 — Announcement

Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission visits ESO’s Paranal Observatory

18 March 2013: On 16 March 2013, the Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission, Prof. Anne Glover, visited ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Upon arriving, she was welcomed by ESO’s Director General, Prof. Tim de Zeeuw. Anne Glover is Chief Scientific Adviser to Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, who also ...

ann13028 — Announcement

Austrian and Portuguese Ministers Visit ESO’s Paranal Observatory

18 March 2013: The Federal Minister for Science and Research of Austria, Karlheinz Töchterle and the Portuguese Minister of Education and Science, Nuno Crato, visited ESO’s Paranal Observatory on 15 March 2013, as part of their official visits to Chile. The Ministers and their delegations were hosted by ESO’s Director General, Tim de Zeeuw.Ministers ...

ann13027 — Announcement

The ALMA Inauguration Video News Release and ESOcast

14 March 2013: On 13 March 2013, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory was formally inaugurated during an official ceremony held at the ALMA site on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes (eso1312). ALMA is a partnership between Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ...

ann13026 — Announcement

New Movie: ALMA — In Search of Our Cosmic Origins

13 March 2013: To mark the occasion of the inauguration of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) [1] on 13 March 2013, ESO, with its international partners, has released a new movie called ALMA — In Search of Our Cosmic Origins. This 16-minute video presents the history of ALMA, from the early days of ...

ann13025 — Announcement

In Search of Our Cosmic Origins Photo Book Released

13 March 2013: The biggest astronomy project in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), will very likely make rivers of ink run in science journals around the world very soon, but before that happens, it has been portrayed in detail in the beautiful photo book In Search of Our Cosmic Origins. ...

ann13024 — Announcement

New Brochure Details ALMA’s Construction

13 March 2013: To mark the inauguration of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the ALMA partner organisations have produced a brochure explaining how scientists and engineers from Europe, North America and East Asia, in cooperation with the Republic of Chile, have collaborated on the largest ground-based astronomical project in existence. The challenges ...

ann13023 — Announcement

The Atacama Elders' Vision of the Cosmos

13 March 2013: While the construction of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) on the Chajnantor Plateau was in progress another remarkable project was developing in the San Pedro de Atacama area in the Chilean Andes. This was an ethnological research project aiming to reconstruct the traditional vision of the Universe of the ...

ann13022 — Announcement

Huge Map of the Distant Universe Reaches Halfway Point

12 March 2013: The largest project ever undertaken to map out the Universe in three dimensions using ESO telescopes has reached the halfway stage. An international team of astronomers has used the VIMOS instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope to measure the distances to 55 000 galaxies [1] as part of the ...

ann13021 — Announcement

Partnership with Wings for Science

7 March 2013: ESO has initiated an outreach partnership with the ORA Wings for Science project, which offers aerial support to public research organisations while on a journey around the world. The project has recently taken some stunning photographs of the observatories in northern Chile, such as the largest astronomy project in existence, ...

ann13020 — Announcement

Media Advisory: Virtual Press Conference to Mark ALMA Inauguration

6 March 2013: On 13 March 2013 the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) [1], the largest astronomical project in the world, will be inaugurated in Chile, celebrating ALMA’s transition from a construction project to a fully fledged observatory. For members of the media who cannot be present at the inaugural event, the ALMA ...

ann13019 — Announcement

United Kingdom Confirms Participation in E-ELT

4 March 2013: Representatives of United Kingdom (UK) confirmed on 3 March 2013 that their country will participate in the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) programme. Eleven ESO Member States have now joined the E-ELT programme. The UK is a 16 per cent partner in ESO and the newly announced investment amounts to ...

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