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November 2017

Dear Fellow Communicators,

2017 is drawing to a close, and we are already making plans for the new year — not just for 2018, but also for 2019. On 2 July 2019, a total solar eclipse will pass over ESO’s La Silla Observatory. 2019 also marks the 50th anniversary of ESO’s first observing site. We are planning on using these opportunities to organise a Total Solar Eclipse campaign, allowing up to 700 members of the public to view the phenomenon from La Silla. More information on tickets and what’s planned for the event will be posted online within the next week or two.

This week we are also releasing a vastly improved new set of ESO Virtual Tours, which you’ll also be able to experience in virtual reality! If you have a virtual reality standard Cardboard set or a pair of oculus rift glasses, get them ready! Actually, since you took the trouble of reading all the way until this point, we will let you in on a secret: you can already access them here. Shhh, don’t tell anyone...

Finally, if you visited us during our ESO Open House Day on 21 October, we hope you had a great time. Make sure to come back next year when the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre will be open.

Let’s reach new heights in astronomy together!

Lars Lindberg Christensen (lars@eso.org)
Head, ESO education and Public Outreach Department (ePOD)




  ESOblog


Next-generation Lasers Shine Spotlight On Classical Physics — A conversation with ESO Fellow Frédéric Vogt

Interview with: Frédéric Vogt

3 November 2017: Have you ever noticed how the stars twinkle? This occurs because their light has to pass through Earth’s dynamic atmosphere before it reaches our eyes, which blurs our view of ...

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How to build a giant telescope — A conversation with Roberto Tamai, the ELT Programme Manager

Interview with: Roberto Tamai

27 October 2017: The Extremely Large Telescope is — literally — the biggest thing to come out of ESO in the next decade. It will produce incredibly cool science that will radically expand ...

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The makings of the ground-breaking gravitational waves discovery — The scientists behind the telescopes tell their stories

Interview with: Stephen Smartt and Stefano Covino

20 October 2017: Have you heard the game-changing news? For the first time ever, astronomers have observed the visible counterpart of a gravitational wave source. Gravitational waves were detected passing by Earth on ...

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  ESOcasts


ESOcast 136 Light: ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star (4K UHD)

3 November 2017: The ALMA Observatory in Chile has detected dust around the closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri. These new observations reveal the glow coming from cold dust in a ...


ESOcast 135: ​ALMA​ ​is​ ​a​ ​timemachine!

2 November 2017: How can astrophysicists study the story of the Universe? Billions of years ago, when the Big Bang happened, there was no Milky Way Galaxy, no Solar System, no planet Earth ...


ESOcast 134 Light: Revealing Galactic Secrets (4K UHD)

25 October 2017: The VLT Survey Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of the galaxy NGC 1316 and its rich surroundings. Discover more in this episode of ESOcast Light.

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Upcoming Events

Ongoing

27 November 2017: Münchner Wissenschaftstage

5 - 8 December 2017: Festival Internacional de Innovación Social (FiiS) - Edición Santiago

26 December 2017 - 1 January 2018: Fifth ESO Astronomy Winter Camp for Secondary School Students

26 April 2018: Girls' Day at ESO Headquarters

2 July 2019: Total Solar Eclipse




Upcoming Exhibitions

17 - 19 November 2017: FORSCHA 2017. Munich, Germany.

26 - 28 February 2018: Big Science Business Forum. Copenhagen, Denmark.

3 - 6 April 2018: EWASS. Liverpool, United Kingdom.

20 - 31 August 2018: IAU General Assembly. Vienna, Austria.

 
Antares overlooking an Auxiliary Telescope  ESO Open House Day 2017 

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