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ESOcast 40: When Speed Matters - Discovery of the Accelerating Universe Wins Nobel Prize for Physics ESOobservatory 1,484 views In the past two decades, astronomers have made a truly revolutionary discovery: that the cosmos is not only expanding, but is doing so at an ever-faster rate. The discovery...
ESOcast 39: A Black Hole's Dinner is Fast Approaching ESOobservatory 18,639 views Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered a gas cloud with several times the mass of the Earth accelerating towards the black hole at the centre of the M...
ESOcast 38: Faraway Eris is Pluto's twin ESOobservatory 2,089 views This ESOcast describes how astronomers have accurately measured the diameter of the faraway dwarf planet Eris for the first time by catching it as it passed in front of a f...
ESOcast 37: Full-size Mock-up of World's Largest Telescope Mirror Built at ESO's Open House Day ESOobservatory 1,182 views On Saturday 15 October 2011 ESO opened the doors of its headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany, to the public. Throughout the day, thousands of visitors had the chan...
ESOcast 36: ALMA Opens Its Eyes ESOobservatory 2,503 views The most complex ground-based astronomy observatory in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first ...
ESOcast 35: Fifty New Exoplanets ESOobservatory 33,564 views Astronomers using ESO's leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced more than fifty newly discovered planets around other stars. Among these are many rocky planets ...
ESOcast 34: How To Stop a Star's Twinkle ESOobservatory 1,198 views We have all looked up at the sky at night and seen the stars twinkle. It may be pretty and romantic, but it is also a big problem for astronomers, as the shimmering starlig...
ESOcast 33: Under Chilean Skies ESOobservatory 954 views In the pursuit of pristine skies, ESO, the European Southern Observatory, operates its telescopes far beyond Europe, in the remote and arid landscape of the Atacama Desert ...
ESOcast 32: Most Distant Quasar Found ESOobservatory 3,052 views This ESOcast is about the discovery of the most distant quasar found to date. This brilliant beacon is powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun...
ESOcast 31: Pandora's Cluster ESOobservatory 2,692 views This joint episode of the Hubblecast and ESOcast presents Abell 2744, an unusual cluster of galaxies nicknamed "Pandora's Cluster" by the astronomers who have studied it. L...

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Welcome to the official page of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of ESO — the world's most productive astronomical observatory! ESO is the best suitable platform for mega science projects in astronomy as it develops and operates world-class telescopes in Chile — La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor — on behalf of its fifteen Member States. It builds ALMA together with international partners, and designs the European Extremely Large Telescope, which will be the biggest eye on the sky.

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