ESO Press Releases and Photos 2004

  • ESO 36/04 (23 December 2004) - Press Photo

    Season's Greetings!

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  • ESO 28/04 (21 December 2004) - Press Release

    The President and the Galaxy - Chilean Head of State Visits Paranal Observatory.

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  • ESO 34a-h/04 (10 December 2004) - Press Photos

    Caught in the Cobweb - Turbulent and Colourful LMC Region Imaged from La Silla.

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  • ESO 33a-d/04 (1 December 2004) - Press Photos

    Explosions in Majestic Spiral Beauties - Very Large Telescope Takes Snapshots of Two Grand-Design Spiral Galaxies.

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  • ESO 27/04 (24 November 2004) - Press Release

    Young Stars Poised for Production of Rocky Planets - VLT Interferometer Studies the Inner Region of Circumstellar Discs.

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  • ESO 31a-c/04 (18 November 2004) - Press Photos

    Big Stellar Clusters Forming in the Blue Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5253.

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  • ESO 26/04 (2 November 2004) - Press Release

    Summing Up the Unique Venus Transit 2004 (VT-2004) Programme - Vast Public Education Project is an Outstanding Success.

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  • ESO 25/04 (29 October 2004) - Press Release

    Measuring Cosmic Distances with Stellar Heart Beats - VLTI Watches the Changing Size of Bright Southern Cepheids. With PR Photos 30a-d/04

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  • ESO 24/04 (22 October 2004) - Press Release

    The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies in the Making - VLT Observations of Planetary Nebulae Confirm the Dynamical Youth of Virgo. With PR Photos 29a-b/04

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  • ESO 28a-e/04 (29 September 2004) - Press Photos

    ESO Views of Earth-Approaching Asteroid Toutatis

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  • ESO 27/04 (14 September 2004) - Press Photo

    The Milky Way above La Silla

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  • ESO 23/04 (10 September 2004) - Press Release

    Is This Speck of Light an Exoplanet? - VLT Images and Spectra of Intriguing Object near Young Brown Dwarf

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  • ESO 22/04 (25 August 2004) - Press Release

    Fourteen Times the Earth - ESO HARPS Instrument Discovers Smallest Ever Extra-Solar Planet

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  • ESO 21/04 (24 August 2004) - Press Release

    SINFONI Opens with Upbeat Chords - First Observations with New VLT Instrument Hold Great Promise

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  • ESO 20/04 (17 August 2004) - Press Release

    How Old is the Milky Way ? - VLT Observations of Beryllium in Two Old Stars Clock the Beginnings

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  • ESO 19/04 (30 July 2004) - Press Release

    Catching a Falling Star - ESO's Very Large Telescope Obtains Unique Spectrum of a Meteor.

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  • ESO 18/04 (07 July 2004) - Press Release

    Finland Becomes Eleventh ESO Member State

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  • ESO 17/04 (07 July 2004) - Press Release

    Old Galaxies in the Young Universe - Very Large Telescope Unravels New Population of Very Old Massive Galaxies

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  • ESO 20/04 (30 June 2004) - Press Photo

    Revisiting the Orion Nebula - Wide Field Imager Provides New View of a Stellar Nursery

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  • ESO 16/04 (15 June 2004) - Press Release

    Weighing Ultra-Cool Stars - Large Ground-Based Telescopes and Hubble Team-Up to Perform First Direct Brown Dwarf Mass Measurement. With ESO PR Photos 19a-b/04.

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  • ESO 15/04 (3 June 2004) - Press Release

    Charting the Giants - Largest Census Of X-Ray Galaxy Clusters Provides New Constraints on Dark Matter. With ESO PR Photos 18a-d/04 and PR Video Clip 05/04.

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  • ESO 14/04 (28 May 2004) - Press Release

    Missing Black Holes Driven Out - Astrophysical Virtual Observatory Proves To Be Essential Tool. With ESO PR Photo 17/04.

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  • ESO 13/04 (12 May 2004) - Press Release

    Feeling the Heat - Successful "First Light" for the Mid-Infrared VISIR Instrument on the VLT. With ESO PR Photos 16a-h/04.

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  • ESO 12/04 (12 May 2004) - Press Release

    Shadow of a Large Disc Casts New Light on the Formation of High Mass Stars - Massive Star Observed that Forms through a Rotating Accretion Disc. With ESO PR Photos 15a-e/04 and Video Clip 03/04.

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  • ESO 11/04 (7 May 2004) - Press Release

    Two Extremely Hot Exoplanets Caught in Transit - VLT Measures Properties of New Jupiter-Size Objects in Very Close Orbits. With ESO PR Photos 14a-e/04.

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  • ESO 10/04 (5 May 2004) - Press Release

    Closer to the Monster - Trailblazing VLT Interferometer Studies of the Central Region in Active Galaxy NGC 1068. With ESO PR Photo 13/04.

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  • ESO 12/04 (28 April 2004) - Press Photo

    Cosmic Ballet or Devil's Mask? - Very Large Telescope Witnesses Close Interaction in Galaxy Family.

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  • ESO 09/04 (14 April 2004) - Press Release

    A "Dragon" on the Surface of Titan - VLT Looks through Narrow Atmospheric Window and Produces Most Detailed Images Yet. With ESO PR Photos 11a-f/04.

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  • ESO 08/04 (6 April 2004) - Press Release

    Milky Way Past Was More Turbulent Than Previously Known - Results of 1001 observing nights shed new light on our Galaxy. With ESO PR Photos 10a-b/04 and ESO Video Clip 04/04.

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  • ESO 07/04 (5 April 2004) - Press Release

    Adding New Colours to Interferometry - AMBER joins the VLT Interferometer. With ESO PR Photos 09a-b/04.

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  • ESO 06/04 (1 April 2004) - Press Release

    Happy Anniversary, VLT ! - Five years at the service of Europe's astronomers

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  • ESO 08a-c/04 (1 April 2004) - Press Photos

    Titanic Weather Forecasting - New Detailed VLT Images of Saturn's Largest Moon.

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  • ESO 05/04 (31 March 2004) - Press Release

    New Quasar Studies Keep Fundamental Physical Constant Constant - Very Large Telescope sets stringent limit on possible variation of the fine-structure constant over cosmological time. With ESO PR Photo 07/04.

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  • ESO 06a-b/04 (2 March 2004) - Press Photos

    ESO's Telescope Takes Picture of ESA's Rosetta's Target, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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  • ESO 04/04 (1 March 2004) - Press Release

    VLT Smashes the Record of the Farthest Known Galaxy - Redshift 10 Galaxy discovered at the Edge of the Dark Ages. With ESO PR Photos 05a-b/04.

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  • ESO 03/04 (16 February 2004) - Press Release

    Announcing the VT-2004 Public Education Programme. With ESO PR Photos 04a-c/04.

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  • ESO 02/04 (09 February 2004) - Press Release

    Finland to join ESO. With ESO PR Photo 03/04 and ESO Video Clip 02/04.

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  • ESO 01/04 (30 January 2004) - Press Release

    First Auxiliary Telescope for the VLT Interferometer Installed at Paranal. With ESO PR Photos 02a-e/04 and ESO Video Clip 01/04.

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  • ESO 01/04 (7 January 2004) - Press Photo

    ESO PR Highlights in 2003.

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