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ann11077 — Announcement

Café & Kosmos 8 November 2011

7 November 2011: Colliding and exploding stars, which we witness as supernovae and gamma-ray bursts, generate the most powerful and brightest surges of energy in the Universe. During the very short time needed for these explosions to produce a neutron star or a black hole, they release more energy than the Sun during ...
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ann11076 — Announcement

ESOcast 38: Faraway Eris is Pluto's Twin

26 October 2011: Astronomers have accurately measured the diameter of the faraway dwarf planet Eris for the first time by catching it as it passed in front of a faint star. This event was seen at the end of 2010 by telescopes in Chile, including the Belgian TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla ...
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ann11075 — Announcement

ESO Astronomer Awarded Chilean Medal

21 October 2011: In a ceremony at the Chilean Consulate General in Hamburg, Germany, the Consul General, Eduardo Schott, awarded the rank of Commander of the Order of Bernardo O’Higgins to Hans-Emil Schuster in recognition of his important contribution to astronomy in Chile. Born in 1934, Hans-Emil Schuster is a German astronomer who ...
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ann11074 — Announcement

Matta's Universes

19 October 2011: Los Universos de Matta (Matta’s Universes) is a new exhibition inaugurated at the University of Santiago (USACH) Planetarium on 13 October 2011. Inspired by the work of the multifaceted Chilean artist Roberto Matta Echaurren, this exhibition opened in the new Astronomy Park in the green area surrounding the Planetarium. Born ...
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ann11073 — Announcement

ESOcast 37: Full-size Mock-up of World's Largest Telescope Mirror Built at ESO's Open House Day

19 October 2011: On Saturday 15 October 2011 ESO opened the doors of its headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany, to the public. Throughout the day, thousands of visitors had the chance to help build a full-size mock-up mirror of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) — the largest planned telescope in the ...
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ann11072 — Announcement

ESO Open House Day 2011: Programme

12 October 2011: For a German version, click here. The European Southern Observatory has lined up a series of exciting activities for the Open House Day 2011, scheduled for 15 October, between 11:00 and 18:00 at its Headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany. The highlights of this year’s programme include the building of ...
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ann11071 — Announcement

Café & Kosmos 11 October 2011

6 October 2011:   Although it is invisible, and has so far never been directly detected, dark matter dominates the Universe. Without this mysterious substance the motion of stars around the centres of their galaxies cannot be explained and, even more importantly, some specialists consider that none of the structures we observe in ...
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ann11070 — Announcement

Media Advisory: Visitors at ESO Headquarters to Build Full-size Replica of World’s Largest Planned Telescope Mirror

5 October 2011: For a German version, please go here. Media representatives are invited to attend the first live construction of a life-size replica of the 40-metre mirror for the planned European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The event takes place between 11:00 and 18:00 on Saturday 15 October 2011 at ESO Headquarters in ...
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ann11069 — Announcement

Discoverers of Accelerating Universe Win 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics

4 October 2011: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". One half of the prize goes to Saul Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, USA) and the other half jointly to Brian P. ...
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ann11068 — Announcement

ESOcast 36: ALMA Opens Its Eyes

3 October 2011: The most complex ground-based astronomical observatory in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a telescope that is still under construction, reveals a view of the Universe that cannot be seen at all by visible-light and infrared telescopes. Thousands ...
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ann11067 — Announcement

UK Funding for E-ELT Instruments

3 October 2011: The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the United Kingdom is making £3.5 million (about 4 million euros) in funding available over the next two years for UK astronomers to take a leading role in the development of key instruments on the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The E-ELT ...
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ann11066 — Announcement

Media Advisory: virtual press conference on start of ALMA operations

29 September 2011: Together with its international partners from North America and East Asia (NRAO and NAOJ), and with the Joint ALMA Observatory in Chile, ESO is inviting media to an online press conference on Monday 3 October 2011 at 10:30 CEST (08:30 UT). Early Science observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...
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ann11065 — Announcement

Science In School Issue 20 Out Now!

20 September 2011: The latest issue of Science in School is now available both online and in its print version. The European journal for science teachers explores a wide selection of scientific topics, through informative articles, fun games and activities for students. The topics range from biology and the human body to fun ...
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ann11064 — Announcement

ESO Releases The Messenger No. 145

14 September 2011: The newest edition of ESO’s quarterly journal, The Messenger, is now available online. In this issue, find out the latest from ESO, with topics ranging from new instruments to ground-breaking discoveries. Highlights include: How the TRAPPIST telescope has been helping the hunt for exoplanets. Plans for a new massive-multiplexed spectrograph ...
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ann11063 — Announcement

ESOcast 35: Fifty New Exoplanets Discovered by HARPS

12 September 2011: Astronomers using ESO’s leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced more than fifty newly discovered planets around other stars. Among these are many rocky planets not much heavier than the Earth. One of them in particular seems to orbit in the habitable zone around its star. In this ESOcast we ...
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ann11062 — Announcement

Café & Kosmos 13 September 2011

9 September 2011:  Recent developments in astroparticle physics are the theme of the international conference, Topics on Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP), which takes place from 5 to 9 September 2011 in Munich. TAUP will address current questions in modern astrophysics and particle physics. For instance, scientists will discuss new measurements from an ...
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ann11061 — Announcement

Media Advisory: ESO to hold virtual press conference to discuss major HARPS exoplanet findings

8 September 2011: On Monday 12 September 2011, astronomers will report significant new results in the field of exoplanets, obtained with the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph on ESO's 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla Observatory  in Chile. An online press conference to announce the new results ...
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ann11060 — Announcement

ESOcast 34: How To Stop a Star's Twinkle

5 September 2011: We have all looked up at the sky at night and seen the stars twinkle. It may be pretty and romantic, but it is also a big problem for astronomers, as the shimmering starlight blurs observations. In this ESOcast we visit the Allgäu public observatory amid the picturesque landscape of ...
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ann11059 — Announcement

Cryogenic “Catering Truck” Comes to ALMA

2 September 2011: The ultimate in high altitude, high-tech catering has arrived in Chile to serve chilled "provisions" to the antennas at the largest astronomical complex in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).Although it may look just like an airline catering truck, this vehicle is designed to carry something considerably more ...
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ann11058 — Announcement

ESO Call for Proposals for Period 89 Released

31 August 2011: The ESO Call for Proposals for Period 89 has been released. The deadline is 29 September 2011, 12:00 noon CEST. Links More information: http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/proposals/
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