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href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vista/camera/"> VIRCAM </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vista/4most/"> 4MOST </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vista/surveys/"> The VISTA surveys </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vista/consortium/"> The VISTA consortium </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vst/"> VST <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=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vst/mirror/"> The VST mirrors </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vst/camera/"> OmegaCAM </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vst/surveys/"> The VST surveys </a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/speculoos/"> SPECULOOS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/ngts/"> NGTS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/cta/"> Cherenkov Telescope Array </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/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-302" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/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-303" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/swedish/simba/"> SIMBA </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/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-305" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/ntt/efosc2/"> EFOSC2 </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/ntt/emmi/"> EMMI </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/ntt/irspec/"> IRSPEC </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/ntt/sofi/"> SOFI </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/ntt/soxs/"> SOXS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/ntt/susi2/"> SUSI and SUSI2 </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/"> ESO 3.6-metre telescope <span class="desktop-children topmenu-arrow fa fa-angle-right"></span></a><span class="mobile-children"><span class="fa 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href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/timmi2/"> TIMMI/2 </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/36-infrared-photometer-spectrophotometer/"> Infrared Photometer/Spectrophotometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/36-standard-photometer/"> Standard Photometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/infrared-specklegraph/"> Infrared Specklegraph </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/infrared-speckle-interferometer/"> Infrared Speckle Interferometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/36/efosc/"> EFOSC </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/"> MPG/ESO 2.2-metre 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-326" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/feros/"> FEROS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/grond/"> GROND </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/irac2/"> IRAC & IRAC2 </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/pisco/"> PISCO </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/wfi/"> WFI </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/infrared-photometer-spectrophotometer/"> Infrared Photometer/Spectrophotometer </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/swiss/"> Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler 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-333" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/swiss/coralie/"> CORALIE </a></li></ul></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/rem/"> Rapid Eye Mount telescope </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/trappist/"> TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope–South </a></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish154/"> Danish 1.54-metre 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-337" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish154/coravel/"> CORAVEL </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish154/dfosc/"> DFOSC </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish154/ccd/"> CCD camera </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish154/hb-photometer/"> Hβ Photometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish154/two-channel-photometer/"> Two-Channel Photometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish154/four-channel-photometer/"> Four-Channel Photometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish154/six-channel-photometer/"> Six-Channel uvby-Hβ Photometer </a></li></ul></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/tarot/"> Télescope à Action Rapide pour les Objets Transitoires </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/1mschmidt/"> ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope </a></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/152metre/"> ESO 1.52-metre 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-347" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/152metre/bandc/"> Boller and Chivens Spectrograph </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/152metre/coude/"> Coudé Spectrograph </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/152metre/echelec/"> ECHELEC </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/152metre/rv-cass-spectrograph/"> RV Cass Spectrograph </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/1metre/"> ESO 1-metre 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-352" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/1metre/fideos/"> FIDEOS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/1metre/infrared-photometer/"> Infrared Photometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/1metre/single-channel-photometer/"> Single-Channel Photometer </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/05metre/"> ESO 0.5-metre 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-356" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/05metre/single-channel-photometer/"> Single-Channel Photometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/05metre/double-channel-photometer/"> Double-Channel Photometer </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/coude/"> Coudé Auxiliary Telescope <span 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href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/t70/"> Swiss T70 telescope </a></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/bochum/"> Bochum 0.61-metre 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-365" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/bochum/bochum-scanner/"> Bochum Scanner </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/bochum/bochum-photometer/"> Bochum Photometer </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish05/"> Danish 0.5-metre 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-368" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/danish05/danish-two-channel-hb-photometer/"> Two-Channel Hβ Photometer </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/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/20220310060624/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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/gpo/"> Grand Prisme Objectif telescope </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/swiss04/"> Swiss 0.4-metre telescope </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/marseille/"> Marseille 0.36-metre telescope </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/grb/"> GRB Monitoring System </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mascara/"> MASCARA </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/blackgem/"> BlackGEM </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/extra/"> ExTrA </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/test-bed/"> Test-Bed Telescope </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/"> APEX <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-380" class="submenu-aim sublevel"><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/apex-2a/"> APEX–2A </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/artemis/"> ArTéMiS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/aszca/"> ASZCa </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/champ-plus/"> CHAMP+ </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/concerto/"> CONCERTO </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/flash/"> FLASH </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/flash-plus/"> FLASH+ </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/laboca/"> LABOCA </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/mpi_11thz/"> MPI_1.1THz </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/p-artemis/"> P-ArTéMiS </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/pi230/"> PI230 </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/polka/"> PolKa </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/saboca/"> SABOCA </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/sepia/"> SEPIA </a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/apex/shefi/"> SHeFI </a></li></ul></li><li class="submenu"><a href="/web/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/alma/"> ALMA <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-396" class="submenu-aim 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(Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, visited the ESO office in Vitacura, Santiago, Chile. Minister Varakdar is responsible for Ireland’s membership of ESO and took the opportunity to tour the Vitacura offices as part of a visit to participate in the inauguration events for Chilean President–Elect, Gabriel Boric. During his visit, the Tánaiste met with ESO’s Director General Xavier Barcons, as well as Luis Chavarría, ESO Representative in Chile, Gautier Mathys, Science Advisor to the ESO Representative, and Bárbara Nuñez, ESO’s Regional Relations Officer. He was accompanied by six other officials from Ireland including Paul Gleeson, the first ambassador of Ireland resident in Chile. Ireland formalised its ESO membership in 2018, cementing the country’s long-standing position at the forefront of the world’s astronomy community. The country has a rich heritage in astronomy at Dunsink, Armagh and Birr, hosting the world’s largest ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann22004/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/ann22004a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann22004 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">Record number of studies using ESO data published in 2021</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>24 February 2022</strong>: Last year proved to be a record-breaking year for research based on observations conducted at ESO observatories. A recent report by the ESO Library and Information Centre shows that, in 2021 alone, over 1100 papers including ESO data were released, the highest annual number of publications from ESO telescope data to date. The most significant contribution to these publications comes from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), and the VLT Interferometer (VLTI), which yielded data included in over 600 studies. The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) continues to be one of the most productive VLT instruments, providing data for over 160 articles in 2021. There has also been a steep increase in papers using data from the VLTI instrument GRAVITY this year. Highlights from these facilities include the discovery, using MUSE, of the closest pair of supermassive black holes to date and investigations into the causes of Betelgeuse’s great dimming, which ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann22003/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/annlang21004d-es-cl.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann22003 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">ESO celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>11 February 2022</strong>: Today marks the United Nations’ International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The day aims to promote equal access to science for women and girls, serving as a reminder that they play a critical role in science and technology communities, and that their participation in them should be promoted. ESO has taken important steps towards diversity and inclusion of all genders, including over the past year, and will be hosting a week of activities to celebrate this day. In October 2021, as part of the agreement between ESO and UN Women signed in 2020, ESO started participating in the Second Chance programme (Tu Oportunidad) in Chile. In partnership with UN Women, ESO began to train seven Chile-based women in key astronomical technical skills, such as the coating of large telescope mirrors, which will allow them to expand their job opportunities and gain the skills to work in top astronomical ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann22002/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/ann22002a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann22002 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">ESO and Australia strengthen their strategic partnership</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>10 February 2022</strong>: On 9 February, ESO and Australia signed an amendment to broaden the scope of their strategic partnership. By virtue of this expanded agreement, Australia will join ESO’s Technology Development Programme, meaning Australian companies and institutions will be eligible to work with ESO in developing future technologies for ground-based telescopes. Australia has been a Strategic Partner of ESO since 2017. The partnership has granted Australian astronomers and industry access to ESO’s state-of-the-art research infrastructure at the La Silla and Paranal observatories, including telescopes such as ESO’s Very Large Telescope or ESO’s 3.6m Telescope [1]. They also have the opportunity to collaborate with ESO Member State institutions on developing instruments for these observatories. The amendment signed today will further strengthen this partnership by allowing Australia to participate in ESO’s Technology Development Programme. Launched in 2014, this programme brings ESO’s engineers and industry together to develop future technologies for ground-based astronomy in areas ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann22001/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/paranal-vista.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann22001 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">ESO and international partners petition UN for the protection of the Earth’s dark and quiet skies</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>7 February 2022</strong>: An international collaboration involving ESO has submitted a new paper to the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) seeking better protections for the Earth’s dark and quiet skies. The paper was accepted for discussion today at the ongoing session of the COPUOS Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, marking the first time the dark and quiet skies have ever been tabled as a formal agenda item by the United Nations. The paper, which has been endorsed by Chile, Spain and Slovakia, encourages the international community to protect global astronomical observing capabilities from disruptive and harmful artificial interference. The night sky offers a rich tapestry of stars to the fortunate viewer, but over the last few decades, its quality has been diminished as a result of encroaching ground-based light pollution. A new threat is now emerging: the large number of satellites being introduced into low Earth orbits. As many ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/annlang21005-es-cl/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/annlang21005a-es-cl.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">annlang21005-es-cl-en — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">ESO and Chile sign agreement to foster scientific and technological cooperation on the ELT</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>15 December 2021</strong>: Today, ESO and the Government of Chile, through its National Research and Development Agency (ANID), signed an agreement on scientific and technological cooperation for the construction and operation of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ESO’s ELT), which will be the biggest optical/infrared telescope in the world. The agreement, signed at ESO offices in Santiago by Xavier Barcons, ESO Director General, and Aisén Etcheverry, National Director of ANID, will fund ELT-related projects in engineering, computing, and other areas proposed by Chilean academic institutes. These projects will allow the training, for at least a decade, of highly specialised engineers, technicians and scientists in Chile. “With the signature of this agreement with ANID, we are breaking new ground in our long-standing cooperation with Chile. We will now jointly fund projects of interest to both Chile and ESO around the largest optical telescope ever built. Through this programme we will further the engagement between ESO ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/annlang21004-es-cl/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/annlang21004a-es-cl.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">annlang21004-es-cl-en — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">UN Women and ESO start training programme for Chile-based women to coat astronomical mirrors</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>1 December 2021</strong>: The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has partnered with UN Women to train seven Chile-based women in key astronomical technical skills, which will allow them to expand their job opportunities and gain skills to work in top astronomical observatories under the Second Chance programme (Tu Oportunidad) in Chile. This programme, a UN Women initiative, is being implemented at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Northern Chile’s Antofagasta Region in collaboration with ESO. It aims to prepare a group of women, six from the city of Antofagasta and one from Viña del Mar, to expand their knowledge and improve their job opportunities and technical skills through astronomy. The training programme is provided under the framework of the agreement between ESO and UN Women signed in 2020, and will give the women technical training in coating techniques for telescopes that are used in professional astronomical observatories. The coating of large telescopes, a process that ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/annlang21003-es-cl/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/potw2124a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">annlang21003-es-cl-en — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">Winners of the 2021 Joint Committee ESO–Government of Chile funds announced</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>19 November 2021</strong>: As part of its long-standing cooperation agreement with Chile, ESO provides and manages an annual fund that awards projects dedicated to the development of scientific, technological and educational research and cooperation in astronomy throughout the country. Following two calls for proposals, the Joint Committee ESO–Government of Chile 2021 has now selected 22 national and regional projects fitting these criteria, awarding a total of 600 million Chilean pesos (about €650 000). The 2021 national call had 19 winning projects. The funds will support postdoctoral programmes and academic positions in astronomy in Chilean institutions, scientific visits by national and foreign researchers, the construction of technology for astronomy and related disciplines, as well as educational programmes for the teaching and dissemination of this science in Chile. Among this year’s winners, is a project to promote astronomy engagement amongst underrepresented and lower income communities in Cerro Navia, a municipality in the Santiago Metropolitan Region. ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/annlang21001-de/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/annlang21001a-de.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">annlang21001-de-en — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">Bavarian Minister of Sciences and Arts visits ESO Headquarters</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>18 November 2021</strong>: Today, the Bavarian Minister of Science and Arts Bernd Sibler visited the ESO Headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany. Minister Sibler was accompanied by Rolf-Dieter Jungk, Head of Office in the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art and a small delegation, in line with current COVID-19 restrictions. The visit provided an opportunity for the Minister and his delegation to learn more about ESO and its cutting-edge science and technology. The visitors met with ESO’s Director General Xavier Barcons, ESO’s Council President Linda Tacconi, the ESO Director of Administration Claudia Burger, the ESO Director for Science Rob Ivison, and the ESO Deputy Head of the Office of the Director General Nikolaj Gube. After a presentation about ESO and its activities by the Director General, Minister Sibler and his delegation were given a tour of the facilities at the Garching site, including a stop at the visitor window of ESO’s integration ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann21016/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/ann21016a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann21016 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">ESO adopts new measures to improve its environmental sustainability</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>12 November 2021</strong>: As one of the world’s leading astronomy organisations, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is fully committed to fighting climate change by reducing the environmental impact of its activities. The ESO Directors Team has now approved a new set of measures to gradually decrease the organisation’s carbon footprint over the coming years. The measures are inspired by the United Nations guidelines and build upon the actions ESO had already adopted in the past. ESO carries out the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities, providing astronomers worldwide with some of the best tools for their research and discoveries. This work leads to invaluable scientific and technological progress and other societal benefits, but also unavoidably places demands on resources, energy and the environment. In a carbon audit conducted in 2019, ESO’s 2018 footprint budget was estimated to be around 28 000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year (tCO2e/yr) [1], with ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann21015/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/eso-paranal-33.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann21015 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">Two decades of discoveries with ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer: happy birthday VLTI!</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>29 October 2021</strong>: Twenty years ago today, light from two of the 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes (UTs) of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile was combined for the first time. The event marked the historic moment when these telescopes first operated as a true interferometer, sparking the beginning of a new era for astronomy. When the light beams of the two UTs were combined on the night of 29 October 2001, the VLTI did not only successfully start its operations, but also delivered its first scientific results: the measurement of the size of the southern star Achernar, which was found to be approximately ten times larger than our Sun. This was followed by three more nights of scientific observations, where the VLTI showcased its excellent potential by measuring ten more stars, and notably performing the first interferometric observation of the intriguing Eta Carinae. The successful concept of the VLTI ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann21014/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/M4-3.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann21014 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">From mirror petals to laser stars: ELT adaptive optics milestones reached</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>6 October 2021</strong>: The largest adaptive mirror ever built, the M4 mirror for ESO’s upcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), has reached an important milestone in its development: all six petal-shaped segments that make up the mirror are now completed. M4, the fourth mirror in the light path of the telescope, can change shape quickly and very precisely, and is a key part of the ELT’s adaptive optics system. Light from cosmic objects is distorted by our planet’s atmosphere, producing blurred images. To correct for these distortions, the ELT will use advanced adaptive-optics hardware and software, some of which has been specially developed for the telescope. This includes powerful lasers that create artificial reference stars when there aren’t stars bright enough close to the object of interest to allow measurements of atmospheric distortions, and fast and accurate sensing cameras that measure these distortions. The measurements are then passed to extremely fast real-time computers that ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/annlang21002-es-cl/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/annlang21002a-es-cl.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">annlang21002-es-cl-en — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">Luis Chavarría becomes ESO Representative in Chile</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>1 October 2021</strong>: Today, the Chilean astronomer Luis Chavarría became ESO's new Representative in Chile. He succeeds Jean-Michel Bonneau, who was the interim Representative from June 2021 following Claudio Melo’s departure at the end of May 2021. Luis Chavarría will lead the ESO Representation Office in Chile, which acts on behalf of the ESO Director General in all relevant matters for the organisation in the country. This includes collaborating with Chilean communities and authorities and the diplomatic missions of ESO Member States in Chile. Chavarría will be the first Chilean national to hold this position. "I would like to continue promoting ESO as a pole of scientific development for society, based on the work done at La Silla, Paranal and ALMA observatories. Moreover, ESO's Extremely Large Telescope construction and the Cherenkov Telescope Array South arrival, open the doors to new scientific collaboration from disciplines close to astronomy, such as astrobiology or the high-energy ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann21013/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/beletsky_alma_15-cc2.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann21013 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">ALMA celebrates ten years of science</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>1 October 2021</strong>: Ten years ago, the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), an international observatory in which ESO is a partner, officially opened to astronomers. The occasion was marked on 3 October 2011 with the release of the first image taken with the array — of the colliding Antennae Galaxies — showcasing ALMA’s potential and heralding the start of a successful decade of astronomy. Located on the Chajnantor plateau in northern Chile at an elevation of 5000 metres, the array was operating with only a third of its 66 movable antennas when it first opened for scientific observations. Nonetheless, ALMA received over 900 observing proposals, with around 100 being selected, showing just how excited the scientific community were to make use of this new facility. Over the past decade, ALMA has continued to be in high demand for astronomers around the world: observing proposals still far outstrip the available time, and many interesting ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann21012/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/ann21012a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann21012 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">ALMA goes to new (wave)lengths</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>8 September 2021</strong>: First light has been achieved for a new set of receivers installed on the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner. The band 1 receivers pick up radio waves between 6 and 8.5 mm in length, setting a new record for the longest wavelengths that ALMA can observe. They will allow astronomers to view the early, distant Universe and to explore how planets form as never before. To capture radiation from cosmic sources over a broad range of wavelengths, ALMA’s 66 antennas, located on the Chajnantor plateau in Chile, are equipped with precisely tuned receivers. Each receiver type is sensitive to a particular "band" or range of wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. Until recently, eight out of a planned ten receivers had been mounted on the antennas, covering altogether the window between 0.3 and 3.6 mm (bands 10 to 3). Now, thanks to band 1 receivers, ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann21011/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/ann21011a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann21011 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">New powerful laser based on ESO technology passes field test</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>31 August 2021</strong>: A powerful experimental laser, based on ESO technology, passed a key test last month at the Allgäuer VolksSternwarte Ottobeuren observatory in Germany. The adaptive-optics laser, developed in collaboration with industry, has important additional capabilities compared to existing systems. It will be part of the CaNaPy Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system set to be installed at the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Optical Ground Station in Tenerife, Spain, in the frame of the ESO–ESA Research & Development collaboration. The higher laser power, nearly three times higher than in current systems, opens the door for developments in laser satellite communication, as well as significant improvements in the sharpness of astronomical images taken with ground-based telescopes. Astronomical adaptive optics refers to systems on ground-based telescopes that correct for the blurring effect brought about by turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere — the same effect that causes stars seen from Earth to “twinkle”. To remove ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann21010/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/ann21010a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann21010 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">Let the show begin: APEX’s CONCERTO instrument sees first light</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>6 July 2021</strong>: An exciting new instrument, a spectrometer called CONCERTO, has successfully produced its first observations: test images of the Cat's Paw Nebula and the Crab Nebula. The instrument, installed on the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), will help astronomers probe the mysterious, ancient cosmic epoch during which the first stars lit up. The main goal of CONCERTO, which stands for CarbON CII line in post-rEionisation and ReionisaTiOn epoch, is to study the birth of the first generation of stars. To do so, it will look at cosmic objects that formed between 600 million and 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. This era, known as cosmic reionisation, is poorly understood yet crucial in the history of the cosmos, as it marks the transition between the “dark ages” — a very obscure period in the life of the Universe in which stars had not formed yet — and the time when the ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann21009/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/ann21009a.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann21009 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">ESO Annual Report 2020 Now Available</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>1 July 2021</strong>: The ESO Annual Report 2020 is now available. It presents a summary of ESO’s many activities throughout the year. The contents include: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on ESO, including safety measures and the impact on staff; The ramp-down of the observatories into “Safe State” in March and the ramp-up which began in September, enabling science data from Paranal, APEX and La Silla to flow again; Work that continued in the laboratories under strict safety measures, providing crucial contributions to projects, as well as progress on design, software, data-related and other projects; Further progress made both at ESO and in industry on the Extremely Large Telescope, on the Paranal Instrumentation Programme, and on ALMA development projects; How scientific exploitation of ESO data continued to flourish during the year. Among the highlights was the confirmation of the predictions of General Relativity regarding the orbital precession of the star S2 around ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/annlang21001-es-cl/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/IMG_9915-HDR-CC.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">annlang21001-es-cl-en — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">ESO-Chile Funding Opportunities 2021 Open</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>14 June 2021</strong>: The Joint Committee of ESO and the Government of Chile has opened its funding opportunities for 2021. It will consider all proposals that contribute to the development of astronomy in Chile and will allocate funding of approximately 450 million Chilean pesos in 2021. The criteria for the allocation of funding will take into account the merit of the projects, the strategic priorities determined by the Committee, the match between the requested amount and the scope of the projects, and the applicants’ records.The programmes to be supported by this fund belong to the following areas: Funding of postdoctoral programmes and extended scientific visits for a duration of one to three months for postdocs, researchers or senior faculty of academic institutions. Academic faculty positions for periods of up to two years at Chilean academic institutions. Development and presentation of educational programmes for the teaching and dissemination of astronomy in Chile. Development programmes ...</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/20220310060624/https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann21008/"> <div class="news-wrapper"> <div class="news-image"> <img class="img-responsive" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060624im_/https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb350x/ELT4k-11-Night3_cc.jpg"> </div> <div class="news-description"> <div class="news-id">ann21008 — Announcement</div> <div class="news-title">ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope planned to start scientific operations in 2027</div> <div class="news-teaser"><strong>11 June 2021</strong>: Preparations are being put in place to resume construction work on ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) at Cerro Armazones in Chile, following disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the closure of the site in mid-2020. As work on manufacturing and design elements of the ELT in Europe progressed steadily, the evolution of this complex and ambitious project, set to revolutionise modern astronomy, has been closely monitored over the past year. ESO’s ELT is now expected to deliver the first scientific observations in September 2027, about half a year after an initial “telescope technical first light”. In the last few weeks, the Italian consortium ACe (Cimolai, Astaldi) in charge of the dome and main structure construction, has started preparations to resume on-site activities on ESO’s ELT in the Chilean Atacama Desert, within the health and safety restrictions established by the country’s authorities. 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