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Latest success reflects the excellence of Europe’s optical observation spacecraftCannes, December 29, 2020 – Following the launch of CSO-1 in December 2018, the CSO-2 military observation satellite wa...
Following the announcement of the death of Dr. Mike Freilich, former Director of NASA’s Earth Science Division, #cnes pays glowing tribute to the memory of this outstanding partner of our agency.Micha...
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the La Silla Paranal Observatory has resulted in the loss of virtually all the observing time allocated in Period 105 (April-September 2020), and the timescale f...
To respond to ESA and European Union high-priority requirements to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by human activityCannes, July 31, 2020. Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between #tha...
ESO’s first #observatory celebrates half a century of astronomical researchSince its inauguration in 1969, ESO’s #lasilla #observatory has been at the forefront of #astronomy. Its suite of state-of-th...
New #images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other telescopes reveal a rich landscape of stars and glowing clouds of gas in one of our closest neighbouring galaxies, the Small Magellanic C...
ESPRESSO instrument achieves first light with all four Unit TelescopesThe ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has used the combined light of all four of the 8.2-metre Unit Teles...
The winner of the AstroCamp 2017 bursary offered by #eso has now been selected from almost 100 applications from about a dozen countries. #eso is delighted to announce that #evaforrest from the Unite...
With more than 750 000 pieces of dangerous debris now orbiting Earth, the urgent need for coordinated international action to ensure the long-term #sustainability of spaceflight is a major finding fro...
Observations using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies. These are the first c...
This colourful stripe of stars, gas, and dust is actually a spiral galaxy named NGC 1055. Captured here by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), this big galaxy is thought to be up to 15 percent larger in...
By using galaxies as giant gravitational lenses, an international group of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made an independent measurement of how fast the Universe is expand...
At a ceremony today at ESO’s Headquarters four contracts were signed for major components of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) that #eso is building. These were for: the casting of the telescope’s g...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile has begun observing in a new range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This has been made possible thanks to new receivers installed at th...
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