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2 May 2019

This image, a composite of several observations captured by ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST), shows the ESA spacecraft Gaia as a faint trail of dots across the lower half of the star-filled field of view. These observations were taken as part of an ongoing collaborative effort to measure Gaia’s orbit and improve the accuracy of its unprecedented star map.

The release, images and videos are available on:
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1908/

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2 May 2019




  ESO Announcements


Chilean Senate awards medals to ALMA for contribution to first image of black hole

30 April 2019: On 17 April 2019, the Senate of Chile awarded the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) a medal for its instrumental role in capturing the first-ever image of a black ...

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2019 Olivier Chesneau Prize Awarded to Jozua de Boer

29 April 2019: The 2019 Olivier Chesneau Prize has been awarded to Jozua de Boer, for his PhD thesis entitled “High-contrast Imaging of Protoplanetary Disks“. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden ...

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  ESOblog


The first rung on the cosmic distance ladder — Predicting the future of the Universe by measuring the distance to our closest galactic neighbour

Interview with: Grzegorz Pietrzynski

26 April 2019: In the most accurate measurement to any galaxy ever, a team of scientists recently calculated the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud to an incredible precision of 1%. This research ...

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Behind the black hole — Stories from those working behind the scenes on the biggest discovery of the year

Sera Markoff, Heino Falcke, Sara Issaoun

19 April 2019: Imaging a black hole is no easy task. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project involved over 200 scientists from around the world, and without their hard work, dedication, and imagination, ...

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