Revealing hidden stars and galaxies: new MOONS instrument at the Very Large Telescope makes first observations ...

ESO's ruling body is its Council, which delegates day to day responsibility to the Executive under ESO's Director General. Other governing bodies of ESO are: the Finance Committee (FC), the Scientific ...

Experience spring at ESO's Paranal Observatory: slots now open for free public tours from October through December ...

PIONIER is a H-band 4-beam combiner instrument at the VLT interferometer. It is originally a visitor instrument that by agreement with IPAG is offered to the ESO community from P96 onwards as a ...

alpha(2000) = 04h 50m 36.69s , delta(2000) = +08d 54' 00.7'' ...

Why engineers have built a new instrument with a thousand robotic arms How this new instrument will help the VLT study galaxies both far away and close to home The challenges of building and testing a ...

Paranal Science Operations (PSO) is the department of the European Southern Observatory responsible for the scientific operation of the telescopes at the Paranal Observatory site. These facilities ...

E-ELT PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION Project documents E-ELT Top Level Requirements Observatory Instruments ELT-CAM (now MICADO) ELT-IFU (now HARMONI) ELT-MIDIR (now METIS) ELT-HIRES (now ANDES) ...

The FORS Upgrade project (FORS-Up) aims at bringing a new life to FORS, which started started regular science operations in 2000. In order to ensure that FORS shall remain operational for at least ...

Please find a list of arc lines in the following table. There is noguaranty for the accuracy of the wavelengths. The optimum choice of lines will depend on the spectral resolution of the grisms and ...

Artist’s impression of the planet Ross 128 b (Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser) A temperate Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from the Solar System by a team using ESO’s unique ...

ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is the world's largest ground-based facility for observations in the millimeter/submillimeter regime located on the Chajnantor plateau, 5000 meters ...