Outreach Activities

Outreach activities are carried out by the ESO Public Affairs Department (PAD). They include press releases and broadcast material for the media, the organisation of events, exhibitions and visits as well as various products which are available for the public.

There is also a dedicated Educational Office and an Outreach Network of contacts in the member countries.

ESO Press Releases, Photos and Video Clips are issued at irregular intervals, whenever there are important developments at ESO.

A large collection of nice photos can be found in the ESO Public Image Gallery. ESO also publishes Video News Reels and other Videos.

ESO still and motion pictures as well as ESO broadcast material are Copyright (c) ESO. Before downloading and using ESO images, videos or broadcast material make sure to read and accept to the copyright conditions.

Articles on ESO including organisational perspectives, science and technology developments, astronomical investigations and outreach activities appear in the quarterly ESO Messenger

Last but not least, The European Home Page of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides comprehensive information about this telescope and its scientific discoveries.

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LATEST NEWS STORIES

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  ESO 22/08 - Science Release:

  Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty

  Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, and its remarkable acuity, astronomers were able for the first time to witness the appearance of a shell of dusty gas around a star that just erupted, and follow its evolution for more than 100 days. This provides the astronomers with a new way to estimate the distance of this object and obtain invaluable information on the operating mode of stellar vampires, dense stars that suck material from a companion.
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  ESO 21/08 - Science Release:

  Accretion Discs Show Their True Colours

  Quasars are the brilliant cores of remote galaxies, at the hearts of which lie supermassive black holes that can generate enough power to outshine the Sun a trillion times. These mighty power sources are fuelled by interstellar gas, thought to be sucked into the hole from a surrounding 'accretion disc', and new observations verify a long-standing prediction about the intensely luminous radiation emitted by these accretion discs.
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  ESO 20/08 - Organisation Release:

  Austria to join ESO on 1 July 2008

  At a ceremony in Vienna, the Austrian Minister for Science and Research, Johannes Hahn and the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, signed the formal Accession Agreement between Austria and ESO, paving the way for Austria to join ESO as its 14th member state by 1 July this year.
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