ESO Video News Reels
In addtion to the online video archive, ESO Video News Reels are targeted at broadcast news and are issued at irregular intervals whenever there are important developments at ESO.
Typically, a Video News Reel features an A- and B-roll with a total duration no longer than some 15 minutes. VNRs are issued on Betacam-SP/PAL tapes and are downloadable in part as digital files.
In order to obtain this material please contact broadcast@eso.org.
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Below is a list of currently available Video News Reels.
- VNR 39/09 (October 2009): 32 New Exoplanets Found
- VNR 15/09 (April 2009): Lightest Exoplanet Found
- VNR 49/08 (December 2008): ALMA ovservatory equipped with its first 'eye'
- VNR 46/08 (December 2008): Unprecedented 16-year long study tracks stars orbiting Milky Way black hole.
- VNR 32/07 (July 2007): "Birth of a Colossus on Wheels". First ALMA Transporter Ready to Go.
- VNR 22/07 (April 2007): "Astronomers Find First Earth-like Planet in Habitable Zone"
- VNR 08/07 (February 2007): "SN1987A's Twentieth Anniversary"
- VNR 50/06 (December 2006): "A Dramatic Stellar Crib""
- VNR 46/06 (December 2006): " The Rise of a Giant"
- VNR 31/06 (August 2006): " Far Away Galaxy Under The Microscope"
- VNR 18/06 (May 2006): " Trio of Neptunes and their Belt"
- VNR 07/06 (February 2006): " Man-made Star Shines in the Southern Sky"
- VNR 03/06 (January 2006): " It' s Far, It' s Small, It' s Cool: It' s an Icy Exoplanet! Discovery of a 5 Earth-mass exoplanet "
- VNR No. 15 (March 2005): " Second Auxiliary Telescope for the VLT"
- VNR No. 14 (January 2004): " First Auxiliary Telescope for the VLT Interferometer Installed at Paranal"
- VNR No. 13 (December 2001): " First Light NAOS-CONICA"
- VNR No. 12 (March 2001): " First Light for the VLT Interferometer"
- VNR No. 11 (March 2001): " Video sequences of Astronomical Images"
- VNR No. 10 (March 2001): " Video sequences of the Very Large Telescope"
- VNR No. 09 (May 2000): " The Sharpest Vision - Interferometry with the VLT"
- VNR No. 08 (January 2000): " Soon First Light for VLT MELIPAL"
- VNR No. 07 (July 1999): " Impressions from the ESO Solar Eclipse Expedition in 1994"
- VNR No. 06 (June 1999): " VLT Observes Comet Wirtanen"
- VNR No. 05 (June 1999): " ALMA at Chajnantor"
- VNR No. 04 (February 1999): " VLT UT1 Soon Ready to Receive the Astronomers"
- VNR No. 03 (January 1999) : " Into the Invisible with ISAAC"
- VNR No. 02 (November 1998): " The high-dispersion UVES spectrograph"
- VNR No. 01 (October 1998) : " Recent work at the first 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT1)"