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CAPjournal Issue 20 Now Available
New APOD: Closest Star has Potentially Habitable Planet
Closest Star has Potentially Habitable Planet is NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
New APOD: The Orion Nebula in Infrared from HAWK-I
The Orion Nebula in Infrared from HAWK-I is NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
New APOD: The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies
The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies is NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
New APOD: Three Worlds for TRAPPIST-1
Three Worlds for TRAPPIST-1 is NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
New page for the 4 Laser Guide Star Facility
New APOD: NGC 6872: A Stretched Spiral Galaxy
NGC 6872: A Stretched Spiral Galaxy is NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
ESO & Chile
New APOD: Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte
Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte is NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
CAPjournal Rosetta Special Out Now
#MeetESO — Join ESO’s first social media gathering!
New Adaptive Optics Module for Interferometry (NAOMI)
New web page about GROND
New APOD: Centaurus A
Centaurus A is NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
New page for the APEX receiver SEPIA
New APOD: Star Factory Messier 17
Star Factory Messier 17 is today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
New APOD: M83: The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy
The spiral galaxy M83 is today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
CAPjournal Issue 18 Now Available
New full dome videos
New page for ESPRESSO
Obtaining a 3D view of a galaxy in one shot
CAPjournal Issue 17 available online
Multilingual versions available for the planetarium show "From Earth to the Universe"
New page about interferometry
METIS - E-ELT instrument
HARMONI - E-ELT instrument
MAORY - E-ELT instrument
MICADO - E-ELT instrument
New page about active optics
New APOD: The Medusa Nebula
New page about spectroscopy
Read more about ESO's instruments spectroscopy.
New APOD: In the Heart of the Virgo Cluster
New APOD: NGC 3293: A Bright Young Star Cluster
New handouts online!
New webpage about LABOCA
Read about LABOCA, the LArge BOlometer CAmera designed for APEX.
New webpage about ISAAC
New webpage about ISAAC, the Infrared Spectrometer And Array Camera, an intrument of ESO's Very Large Telescope.
New Photo Ambassador: Petr Horálek
New Photo Ambassador: Alexandru Tudorică
New APOD: M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center
New webpage for EMMI
New webpage for PIONIER
New APOD: The Sombrero Galaxy
New UHD videos online
Privileges and Immunities in ESO's Host States
New APOD: Molecular Cloud Barnard 68
Molecular Cloud Barnard 68 is today's NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. It was originally published on http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0102/
New 8k fulldome videos for planetariums
CAPjournal Issue 16 Now Available
The architecture of various ESO facilities
New page for WFI (Wide Field Imager)
New page for EFOSC2 (Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera 2)
Green ESO — Environmental Sustainability at ESO
New APOD: The Protoplanetary Disk of HL Tauri from ALMA
HL Tauri is today's NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. It was originally published on http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1436/
New page for SPHERE, a VLT instrument
New page for SOFI, son of ISAAC
New page for AMBER, a VLTI instrument
New page for MIDI, a VLTI instrument
New international social media channels added!
Information about the planet searcher HARPS
Information about VISIR, an instrument of VLT
Information about NACO, an instrument of VLT
All ESO live webcams in one page
The 2014 European Astronomy Journalism Prize
New page for the OmegaCAM
Free online materials for planetariums
New page for the X-shooter
New page for the K-band Multi Object Spectrograph
Information about KMOS, the K-band Multi Object Spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope.
CAPjournal 15 Now Available
The 15th issue of the CAPjournal is now available for download on the ESO website.
New APOD: "ALMA Milky Way"
ALMA and the Milky Way are part of today's NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
3D Models for download!
A new archive is available: 3D Models! Download the files and be creative.
New pages for the VLT instruments: CRIRES, FLAMES, FORS2, HAWK-I, SINFONI, UVES, VIMOS and VIRCAM
Ultra HD Blog Post #36: Bringing You The Universe in an Immersive Planetarium Experience
Free UHD fulldome timelapse videos available!
Free UHD fulldome still images available!
Ultra HD Blog Post #35: Capturing the Chilean Night Sky in Ultra HD
New APOD: An ALMA Telescope Array Time-Lapse
An ALMA Telescope Array Time-Lapse is today's NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
New APOD: An ALMA Telescope Array Time-Lapse
"An ALMA Telescope Array Time-Lapse" is today's NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Information about the E-ELT Groundbreaking in June 2014
New videos in UHD format
New video compilations in UHD format
Ultra HD Blog Post #34: Bringing the Universe into a Whole New Dimension
New page about FLAMES (Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph)
Read more about FLAMES (Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph), an instrument used with the Very Large Telescope.
New Photo Ambassador: Sergio Otarola Lanio
Meet the FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph 2
New web page about FORS2, the VLT FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph 2.
Ultra HD Blog Post #33: Expedition day 16: Home
Ultra HD Blog Post #32: Expedition day 15: Homeward Bound
Check our available image formats!
On this page you can find all the image formats available in our archive.
Ultra HD Blog Post #31: Expedition day 14: Santiago-bound
Ultra HD Blog Post #30: Expedition day 13: Shooting from La Silla
Ultra HD Blog Post #29: Expedition day 12: Dawn at La Silla
Ultra HD Blog Post #28: Expedition day 11: Journey to La Silla
Ultra HD Blog Post #27: Expedition day 10: Last day at ALMA
Ultra HD Blog Post #26: Expedition day 9: Perfect Skies Over ALMA
Ultra HD Blog Post #25: Expedition day 8: Capturing the Clear Cool Cosmos
Ultra HD Blog Post #24: Expedition day 7: Journey to ALMA
Ultra HD Blog Post #23: Expedition day 6: Onwards to ALMA
Ultra HD Blog Post #22: Expedition day 5: Sunset Over Paranal
New APOD: A Milky Way Dawn
A Milky Way Down is today's NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.