Dear Fellow Communicators,
This month we are excited to announce we have launched a running version of the cutting-edge Data2Dome project in partnership with Evans & Sutherland and the International Planetarium Society.
If you are working in a planetarium, then this new system brings you the latest news in astronomy in a format ready to use in the dome. The content is free and carefully curated to ensure it is of high quality.
Specifically, Data2Dome delivers the complete collection of images and videos from ESO's frontline telescopes at La Silla and Paranal, as well as from ALMA, ESA/Hubble, and — through NASA’s and IPAC’s Astropix project — NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, GALEX, WISE, and NuStar, as well as ESA’s Planck and Herschel space telescopes. We’d love to add data from more observatories — just ask!
Data2Dome will also give you access to fulldome images and videos, 3D models and music, as well as the latest press releases and blogs from all astronomy and space organisations worldwide, all at the click of a mouse. We hope you will make use of this system and email us your feedback on how it can be improved.
Also this month, registration and abstract submission have opened for the Communicating Astronomy with the Public Conference 2018, the largest conference of its kind in the world. The event takes place in Fukuoka, Japan, on 24–28 March 2018. This is a must-attend event for astronomy communicators of all backgrounds. You can contribute with a talk, poster, or workshop, and enjoy networking and the exchange of information and knowledge with peers from all over the world.
Finally, we would like to welcome Juan Carlos Muñoz as an ESO Photo Ambassador! Currently an Operations Staff Astronomer at the ESO sites in Chile, Juan Carlos might have become a biologist had he got a microscope instead of a telescope as a gift from his parents. Luckily for us, he turned his eyes to the Universe. You can read more about him and check out his photos on our Photo Ambassadors’ webpage.
Let’s reach new heights in astronomy together!
Lars Lindberg Christensen (lars@eso.org)
Head, ESO education and Public Outreach Department (ePOD)
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