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href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/ngts/"> NGTS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/cta/"> Cherenkov Telescope Array </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/"> La Silla Observatory <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-295" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/swedish/"> Swedish–ESO Submillimetre Telescope <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-296" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/swedish/simba/"> SIMBA </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/ntt/"> New Technology Telescope <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></span><ul id="submenu-aim-298" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/ntt/efosc2/"> EFOSC2 </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/ntt/emmi/"> EMMI </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/ntt/irspec/"> IRSPEC </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/ntt/sofi/"> SOFI </a></li><li class=""><a 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href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish05/danish-four-channel-uvby-photometer/"> Four-Channel uvby Photometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish05/danish-six-channel-uvby-hb-photometer/"> Six-Channel uvby–Hβ Photometer </a></li></ul></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/gpo/"> Grand Prisme Objectif telescope </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/swiss04/"> Swiss 0.4-metre telescope </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/marseille/"> Marseille 0.36-metre telescope </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/grb/"> GRB Monitoring System </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mascara/"> MASCARA 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on the surface of a star outside the Solar System — the ageing red giant π1 Gruis. This remarkable new image from the PIONIER instrument reveals the convective cells that make up the surface of this huge star, which has 350 times the diameter of the Sun. Each cell covers more than a quarter of the star’s diameter and measures about 120 million kilometres across. These new results are being published this week in the journal Nature.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1740/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1740a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1740 — Photo Release</div> <div class="news-title">Stellar Nursery Blooms into View</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>13 December 2017</strong>: The OmegaCAM camera on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope has captured this glittering view of the stellar nursery called Sharpless 29. Many astronomical phenomena can be seen in this giant image, including cosmic dust and gas clouds that reflect, absorb, and re-emit the light of hot young stars within the nebula.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1739/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1739a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1739 — Organisation Release</div> <div class="news-title">First Light for ESPRESSO — the Next Generation Planet Hunter</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>6 December 2017</strong>: The Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) has successfully made its first observations. Installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, ESPRESSO will search for exoplanets with unprecedented precision by looking at the minuscule changes in the light of their host stars. For the first time ever, an instrument will be able to sum up the light from all four VLT telescopes and achieve the light collecting power of a 16-metre telescope.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1738/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1738a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1738 — Science Release</div> <div class="news-title">MUSE Probes Uncharted Depths of Hubble Ultra Deep Field</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>29 November 2017</strong>: Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, measuring distances and properties of 1600 very faint galaxies including 72 galaxies that have never been detected before, even by Hubble itself. This groundbreaking dataset has already resulted in 10 science papers that are being published in a special issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics. This wealth of new information is giving astronomers insight into star formation in the early Universe, and allows them to study the motions and other properties of early galaxies — made possible by MUSE’s unique spectroscopic capabilities.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> </div> <div class="row news-list"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1737/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1737a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1737 — Science Release</div> <div class="news-title">ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>20 November 2017</strong>: For the first time ever astronomers have studied an asteroid that has entered the Solar System from interstellar space. Observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world show that this unique object was traveling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. It appears to be a dark, reddish, highly-elongated rocky or high-metal-content object. The new results appear in the journal Nature on 20 November 2017.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1736/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1736a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1736 — Science Release</div> <div class="news-title">Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>15 November 2017</strong>: A temperate Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from the Solar System by a team using ESO’s unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument. The new world has the designation Ross 128 b and is now the second-closest temperate planet to be detected after Proxima b. It is also the closest planet to be discovered orbiting an inactive red dwarf star, which may increase the likelihood that this planet could potentially sustain life. Ross 128 b will be a prime target for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, which will be able to search for biomarkers in the planet's atmosphere.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1735/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1735a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1735 — Science Release</div> <div class="news-title">ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>3 November 2017</strong>: 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 region between one to four times as far from Proxima Centauri as the Earth is from the Sun. The data also hint at the presence of an even cooler outer dust belt and may indicate the presence of an elaborate planetary system. These structures are similar to the much larger belts in the Solar System and are also expected to be made from particles of rock and ice that failed to form planets.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1734/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1734a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1734 — Photo Release</div> <div class="news-title">Revealing Galactic Secrets</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>25 October 2017</strong>: Countless galaxies vie for attention in this monster image of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster, some appearing only as pinpricks of light while others dominate the foreground. One of these is the lenticular galaxy NGC 1316. The turbulent past of this much-studied galaxy has left it with a delicate structure of loops, arcs and rings that astronomers have now imaged in greater detail than ever before with the VLT Survey Telescope. This astonishingly deep image also reveals a myriad of dim objects along with faint intracluster light.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> </div> <div class="row news-list"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1733/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1733a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1733 — Science Release</div> <div class="news-title">ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>16 October 2017</strong>: ESO’s fleet of telescopes in Chile have detected the first visible counterpart to a gravitational wave source. These historic observations suggest that this unique object is the result of the merger of two neutron stars. The cataclysmic aftermaths of this kind of merger — long-predicted events called kilonovae — disperse heavy elements such as gold and platinum throughout the Universe. This discovery, published in several papers in the journal Nature and elsewhere, also provides the strongest evidence yet that short-duration gamma-ray bursts are caused by mergers of neutron stars.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1732/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1732a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1732 — Science Release</div> <div class="news-title">ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>2 October 2017</strong>: Observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESA’s Rosetta mission, have revealed the presence of the organohalogen Freon-40 in gas around both an infant star and a comet. Organohalogens are formed by organic processes on Earth, but this is the first ever detection of them in interstellar space. This discovery suggests that organohalogens may not be as good markers of life as had been hoped, but that they may be significant components of the material from which planets form. This result, which appears in the journal Nature Astronomy, underscores the challenge of finding molecules that could indicate the presence of life beyond Earth.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1731/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1731a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1731 — Photo Release</div> <div class="news-title">The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>27 September 2017</strong>: The spectacular planetary nebula NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles, lit up in glorious pinks and blues. This colourful image was captured by the powerful MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), as part of a study which mapped the dust inside a planetary nebula for the first time. The map — which reveals a wealth of intricate structures in the dust, including shells, a halo and a curious wave-like feature — will help astronomers understand how planetary nebulae develop their strange shapes and symmetries.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1730/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1730a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1730 — Photo Release</div> <div class="news-title">Ageing Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>20 September 2017</strong>: Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae. These observations will help astronomers to better understand how stars evolve during the later stages of their life-cycles.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> </div> <div class="row news-list"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1729/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1729a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1729 — Science Release</div> <div class="news-title">Inferno World with Titanium Skies</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>13 September 2017</strong>: Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have detected titanium oxide in an exoplanet atmosphere for the first time. This discovery around the hot-Jupiter planet WASP-19b exploited the power of the FORS2 instrument. It provides unique information about the chemical composition and the temperature and pressure structure of the atmosphere of this unusual and very hot world. The results appear today in the journal Nature.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1728/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1728a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1728 — Organisation Release</div> <div class="news-title">Xavier Barcons Starts as New ESO Director General</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>1 September 2017</strong>: On 1 September 2017, Xavier Barcons became ESO’s eighth Director General, succeeding Tim de Zeeuw who has served since 2007. Barcons begins his tenure at an exciting time for ESO. Construction of the Extremely Large Telescope is progressing rapidly and it is set to see first light in 2024.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1727/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1727a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1727 — Science Release</div> <div class="news-title">ALMA Finds Huge Hidden Reservoirs of Turbulent Gas in Distant Galaxies</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>30 August 2017</strong>: ALMA has been used to detect turbulent reservoirs of cold gas surrounding distant starburst galaxies. By detecting CH+ for the first time in the distant Universe this research opens up a new window of exploration into a critical epoch of star formation. The presence of this molecule sheds new light on how galaxies manage to extend their period of rapid star formation. The results appear in the journal Nature.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1726/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1726a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1726 — Science Release</div> <div class="news-title">Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>23 August 2017</strong>: Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer astronomers have constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the first map of the velocities of material in the atmosphere of a star other than the Sun, revealing unexpected turbulence in Antares’s huge extended atmosphere. The results were published in the journal Nature.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> </div> <div class="row news-list"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1725/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1725a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1725 — Science Release</div> <div class="news-title">Supermassive Black Holes Feed on Cosmic Jellyfish</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>16 August 2017</strong>: Observations of “Jellyfish galaxies” with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. It seems the mechanism that produces the tentacles of gas and newborn stars that give these galaxies their nickname also makes it possible for the gas to reach the central regions of the galaxies, feeding the black hole that lurks in each of them and causing it to shine brilliantly. The results appeared today in the journal Nature.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1724/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1724a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1724 — Organisation Release</div> <div class="news-title">Cutting-edge Adaptive Optics Facility Sees First Light</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>2 August 2017</strong>: The Unit Telescope 4 (Yepun) of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has now been transformed into a fully adaptive telescope. After more than a decade of planning, construction and testing, the new Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF) has seen first light with the instrument MUSE, capturing amazingly sharp views of planetary nebulae and galaxies. The coupling of the AOF and MUSE forms one of the most advanced and powerful technological systems ever built for ground-based astronomy.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1723/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1723a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1723 — Science Release</div> <div class="news-title">A Tale of Three Stellar Cities</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>27 July 2017</strong>: Using new observations from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, astronomers have discovered three different populations of young stars within the Orion Nebula Cluster. This unexpected discovery adds very valuable new insights for the understanding of how such clusters form. It suggests that star formation might proceed in bursts, where each burst occurs on a much faster time-scale than previously thought.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1722/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso1722a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">eso1722 — Organisation Release</div> <div class="news-title">Eyes Wide Open for MASCARA in Chile</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>19 July 2017</strong>: The MASCARA (Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA) station at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has achieved first light. This new facility will seek out transiting exoplanets as they pass in front of their bright parent stars and create a catalogue of targets for future exoplanet characterisation observations.</div> </div> <div class="news-readmore">Read more</div> </div>  </a> </div> </div> <div class="row statusbar"><div class="col-md-3"> Showing 1 to 20 of 41 </div><div class="col-md-6"><div class="text-center"><ul class="pagination"><li class="active"><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/archive/year/2017/list/1/">1</a></li><li><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/archive/year/2017/list/2/">2</a></li><li><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/archive/year/2017/list/3/">3</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="col-md-3 prev-next"><a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/news/archive/year/2017/list/2/">Next</a></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-12"></div></div> <div class="copyright"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/outreach/copyright/">Usage of ESO Images, Videos, Web texts and Music</a><br/> </div> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="row footernote"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226/mailto:information@eso.org">Send us your comments!</a> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/outreach/newsletters/esonews/">Subscribe to receive news from ESO in your language</a> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226/https://www.cdn77.com/">Accelerated by CDN77</a> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3"> <a href="/web/20210201051226/https://www.eso.org/public/about-eso/privacy/">Terms & Conditions</a> </div> </div> <link href="/web/20210201051226cs_/https://www.eso.org/public/archives/djp/css/extras.166b25c68b97.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <script type="text/javascript">var MEDIA_URL = "/public/archives/"</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/web/20210201051226js_/https://www.eso.org/public/archives/djp/js/main.097c0244ddc7.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>  <div id="social-share" class="hidden-print"> <div class="link facebook" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="right" title="Share on Facebook"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226/https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.eso.org/public/news/archive/year/2017/" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-facebook" aria-hidden="true"></i></a> </div> <div class="link twitter" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="right" title="Share on Twitter"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226/http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.eso.org/public/news/archive/year/2017/&text=&via=ESO" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-twitter" aria-hidden="true"></i></a> </div> <div class="link pinterest" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="right" title="Share on Pinterest"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226/http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://www.eso.org/public/news/archive/year/2017/&media=&description=" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-pinterest" aria-hidden="true"></i></a> </div> <div class="link print" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="right" title="Print"> <a href="javascript:window.print()" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-print" aria-hidden="true"></i></a> </div> <div class="link email" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="right" title="Share by email"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051226/mailto:%20?subject=ESO — Press Releases 2017&body=https://www.eso.org/public/news/archive/year/2017/" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-envelope-o" aria-hidden="true"></i></a> </div> </div> <script> $('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip(); </script> <input type="hidden" name="csrfmiddlewaretoken" value="BnAtZaQ71kN2oAN1q6jZ45b8MlwvUyfJ2PFBvkMi10u7XUcepHKfDYguqKSXrPgp"/> </body> </html>

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