Science with ESO Telescopes

ESO telescopes provide the data for many results and breakthroughs in astronomy, and lead to a large number of scientific publications each year. Astronomers use these state-of-the-art observatories to study objects from within our Solar System to the farthest reaches of the Universe.

With two scientific papers being published every day, the ESO Observatories are in fact the most productive ground-based astronomical facilities in the world. The most remarkable of the science produced are showcased in ESO press releases as well as in the ESO Annual Report. If you are interested in ESO-related scientific publications, you can:

• Follow this link to the SAO/NASA ADS to see the list of the latest 3000 papers using ESO data (~90% complete, for exact numbers please contact the ESO Library, library@eso.org, or see this PDF).
• Subscribe to this RSS Feed.

In this section you will find a couple of examples of astronomical research based on data obtained with ESO telescopes and instruments: