Q&A during ESO press conference announcing discovery of a neutron star merger

Richard Hook, public information officer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), ask for questions from the audience during the ESO press conference announcing the discovery of a neutron star merger in Garching bei München on 16 October 2017.

From left to right is Andrew Levan, professor at the University of Warwick; Elena Pian, service astronomer at INAF-IASF Bologna; Stephen Smartt, professor at Queen's University Belfast; Richard Hook; Samaya Nissanke, assistant professor at Radboud University and representative of the Virgo Interferometer; and Marina Rejkuba, head of the User Support Department at ESO.