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) ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

ESO operates two major telescopes (3.6m telescope and New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory. They are equipped with state of the art instruments either built completely by ESO or ...

HARPS, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher at the ESO La Silla 3.6m telescope is dedicated to the discovery of extrasolar planets. It is a fibre-fed high resolution echelle spectrograph.

ESO's mission is to provide its astronomical community with worldwide competitive ground-based observing capabilities to probe the Universe from its first billion year to the present time. In order to ...