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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. ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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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ann13018 — Announcement

Shaping the Future of the E-ELT

4 March 2013: From 25 February until 1 March 2013, a major workshop on the future of instrumentation for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), entitled Shaping E-ELT Science and Instrumentation was organised by ESO in Garching, Germany. The E-ELT is a revolutionary ground-based telescope — it will have a 39-metre main mirror, ...
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ann13017 — Announcement

New ESO Science Newsletter Released

1 March 2013: The users of ESO facilities and the astronomical community in general now have an updated information source to help them keep up to date with the latest developments at ESO. The ESO Science Newsletter replaces the ESO Electronic Newsletter (Enews) and comes in a new format. It will continue and ...
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ann13016 — Announcement

Live Streaming of ALMA Inauguration

1 March 2013: On 13 March 2013 the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) — the largest ground-based astronomical project in the world — will be inaugurated, marking the transition from construction project to fully fledged observatory. To enable people around the world to witness first-hand this exciting milestone in humanity’s quest to understand ...
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ann13015 — Announcement

New Hardware to Take Interferometry to the Next Level

1 March 2013: ESO has just taken delivery of the last of a series of sophisticated optical and mechanical systems called star separators for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). These systems from the Dutch research institute TNO will allow the VLTI’s future instruments to observe much fainter objects than is possible at ...
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ann13014 — Announcement

How is the Very Large Telescope Operated?

27 February 2013: ESO has produced and released a brochure containing information on the operation of the state-of-the-art instrumentation and facilities provided by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal, Chile. The publication, entitled Operating the Very Large Telescope, describes the end-to-end science operations process: how observing time on the VLT is allocated, ...
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ann13013 — Announcement

Media Advisory: The Crown Prince Couple of Denmark to Meet the Press at Paranal Observatory

26 February 2013: On 14 March 2013, His Royal Highness, The Crown Prince of Denmark, will visit ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile accompanied by his wife, Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess. Denmark has been member of ESO since 1967, and the visit is part of the Crown Prince Couple’s official visit to ...
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ann13012 — Announcement

New ALMA Brochure Published

25 February 2013: A new brochure called The ALMA Universe detailing the design, construction, and use of the the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been released by ESO in collaboration with its partners in the USA (NRAO) and East Asia (NAOJ). This publication describes the components and properties of the observatory that ...
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ann13011 — Announcement

Final ALMA Front End Delivered

22 February 2013: The final front end for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been delivered to the observatory’s Operations Support Facility (OSF) in Chile, marking another milestone in the completion of the project. With one installed in each of ALMA’s 66 antennas, the front ends are the first step in a ...
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ann13010 — Announcement

New Laser Improves VLT’s Capabilities

21 February 2013: A new and more powerful laser has successfully completed testing at ESO’s Paranal Observatory and has been formally accepted today. This new laser source is called PARLA and forms a vital part of the Laser Guide Star Facility (LGSF) at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The laser is used to ...
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ann13009 — Announcement

ESO Extends Lead as World’s Most Productive Ground-based Observatory

19 February 2013: An analysis of the number of peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2012 using data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments has shown that ESO remains the world’s most productive ground-based observatory. More than 870 refereed papers using ESO data were published last year, a significant increase from the previous totals, and ...
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ann13008 — Announcement

ESOcast 53: Chile Chill 3

15 February 2013: This is the third installment of Chile Chill, a type of ESOcast designed to offer a calm experience of the Chilean night sky and ESO’s observing sites, undisturbed by facts or narration. In this episode we are treated to stunning views of the Atacama Desert, including the conical volcano Licancabur ...
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