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Telescopes Team to Make Sharpest Observation Ever
GARCHING, Germany, July 20, 2012 — Three telescopes spaced thousands of miles apart were linked together to capture the sharpest direct observation of the center of a distant galaxy: the bright quasar 3C 279, which has a supermassive black hole at its core. The observation represents...
UK’s Defunding of Hawaii Telescopes Decried
HARWELL OXFORD, England, June 1, 2012 — Thursday was "a sad day for British astronomy," according to the president of the Royal Astronomical Society. That was the day the UK’s Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) announced it would close — or transfer to other...
E-ELT Mirror Work to Start in 2012
GARCHING, Germany, Dec. 20, 2011 — The ESO Council has approved funding for the first elements of the E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope). Work will now begin on the instrument’s challenging adaptive optics mirror, M4 (the fourth mirror out of five in the telescope) in...
ALMA Opens Its Eyes to First Light
GARCHING, Germany, Oct. 4, 2011 — The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the most powerful telescope of its kind in the world, has revealed its first image. About one-third of ALMA's eventual 66 radio antennas, with separations up to only 125 m rather than...
First Images from VLT Survey Telescope Revealed
PARANAL, Chile, June 8, 2011 — With a startling portrait of the Swan Nebula, images acquired at the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) have begun to reveal the universe in more detail than ever before from a terrestrial site. The latest telescope to be added to the Paranal Observatory...
‘Hidden Treasure’ Reveals Reflected Glory
MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 15, 2011 — Messier 78 is a fine example of a reflection nebula. The ultraviolet radiation from the stars that illuminate it is not intense enough to ionize the gas to make it glow — its dust particles simply reflect the starlight that falls on them....
Brazil to Join the ESO
BRASILIA, Brazil, Jan. 4, 2011 — The Brazilian minister of science and technology, Sergio Machado Rezende, and the director general of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Tim de Zeeuw, recently signed a formal accession agreement aiming to make Brazil a member state of the...
Photonics Turned Upside Down
Oct 1, 2010 — There are suppliers in the southern hemisphere of leading photonics-based technologies, as well as cases of innovative research. This Web Exclusive by Hank Hogan cites examples in Australia, South Africa, and Brazil.
Toptica Wins ESO Contract for Laser Guide Stars
VICTOR, N.Y., June 28, 2010 — Toptica Photonics has won a €5.2 million (about $6.4 million) contract from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to develop four continuous-wave, high-power laser guide stars for the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Paranal, Chile.
Chile Chosen as E-ELT Site
ANTOFAGASTA, Chile, May 7, 2010 — The European Southern Observatory (ESO) Council has selected Cerro Armazones as the baseline site for the planned 42-m European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). Cerro Armazones is a mountain at an altitude of 3060 m in the central part of...
Exoplanet's Spectrum Revealed
MUNICH, Germany, Jan. 13, 2010 – By studying a triple planetary system that resembles a scaled-up version of our sun’s family of planets, astronomers have obtained the first direct spectrum of a planet orbiting a distant star, a milestone in the search for life elsewhere in...
Ultrafast Astronomical Camera
GARCHING, Germany, June 22, 2009 – The next generation of instruments for ground-based telescopes took a leap forward with the development of a new ultrafast camera that can take 1500 finely exposed images per second even when observing extremely faint objects.
Virtual Telescope Sees Stars
GARCHING, Germany, Feb. 19, 2009 – Interferometry is a technique that combines the light from several telescopes, resulting in a vision as sharp as that of a giant telescope with a diameter equal to the largest separation between the telescopes used. Achieving this requires that...
Cosmic Revelers Ring in 2009
PARIS, Dec. 30, 2008 – Stargazers across the globe are gearing up for the International Year of Astronomy. A staggering 135 nations are collaborating to bring the universe closer to Earth. Events and activities will take place over the coming 365 year and beyond, in a...
EU Unveils Astronomy Plan
MUNCHEN, Germany, Nov. 26, 2008 – Thanks to the world’s most successful optical observatory, European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope, and the cutting-edge facilities in radio astronomy and in space, Europe has emerged as a global leader in astronomy. In an...
Laser Comb is Ultraprecise
GARCHING, Germany, Sept. 5, 2008 -- A laser frequency comb, a new calibration technique that combines the incredible precision of an atomic clock with the sharp spectral features of laser light, has been used at a solar telescope to measure the sun's spectrum in infrared light. Such...
Genzel Wins $1M Shaw Prize
GARCHING, Germany, June 11, 2008 -- The leader of an international team that showed the Milky Way galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center has been awarded the $1 million Shaw Prize in Astronomy. Reinhard Genzel, director of the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial...
Astronomy Cuts Dismay RAS
LONDON, Dec. 18, 2007 -- The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has expressed its "deep disappointment" at the level of cuts to UK astronomy research announced last week by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). In an effort to prioritize funding efforts, STFC...
Czech Republic Becomes ESO Member
Jan 2, 2007 — Officials from the Czech Republic signed an agreement in Prague last month making the country the 13th member of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the first from central and eastern Europe. Other ESO members are Belgium, Denmark, France,...
ESO Approves 'Extremely Large Telescope' Study
GARCHING, Germany, Dec. 12, 2006 -- The ESO Council, the governing body of the Garching-based European Southern Observatory (ESO), has authorized detailed studies for the European Extremely Large Telescope. The 57 million euro (approximately $75.4 million) studies will make it...
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