Dear Fellow Communicators,
2017 is drawing to a close, and we are already making plans for the new year — not just for 2018, but also for 2019. On 2 July 2019, a total solar eclipse will pass over ESO’s La Silla Observatory. 2019 also marks the 50th anniversary of ESO’s first observing site. We are planning on using these opportunities to organise a Total Solar Eclipse campaign, allowing up to 700 members of the public to view the phenomenon from La Silla. More information on tickets and what’s planned for the event will be posted online within the next week or two.
This week we are also releasing a vastly improved new set of ESO Virtual Tours, which you’ll also be able to experience in virtual reality! If you have a virtual reality standard Cardboard set or a pair of oculus rift glasses, get them ready! Actually, since you took the trouble of reading all the way until this point, we will let you in on a secret: you can already access them here. Shhh, don’t tell anyone...
Finally, if you visited us during our ESO Open House Day on 21 October, we hope you had a great time. Make sure to come back next year when the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre will be open.
Let’s reach new heights in astronomy together!
Lars Lindberg Christensen (lars@eso.org)
Head, ESO education and Public Outreach Department (ePOD)
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Interview with: Roberto Tamai
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Interview with: Stephen Smartt and Stefano Covino
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3 November 2017: 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 ...
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2 November 2017: How can astrophysicists study the story of the Universe? Billions of years ago, when the Big Bang happened, there was no Milky Way Galaxy, no Solar System, no planet Earth ...
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25 October 2017: The VLT Survey Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of the galaxy NGC 1316 and its rich surroundings. Discover more in this episode of ESOcast Light.
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