ESO Press Releases and Photos 2005

  • ESO 43/05 (29 December 2005) - Press Photo

    Season's Greetings!

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  • ESO 42a-b/05 (25 December 2005) - Press Photo

    The Cosmic Christmas Ghost - Two Stunning Pictures of Young Stellar Clusters

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  • ESO 34/05 (22 December 2005) - Press Release

    ALMA On the Move - ESO Awards Important Contract for the ALMA Project

    With ESO PR Photos 41a-b/05.
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  • ESO 33/05 (21 December 2005) - Press Release

    Allo, Allo? A Star is Ringing - VLT Helps Measuring Tortoise-like Motion

    With ESO PR Photos 40a-b/05.
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  • ESO 32/05 (14 December 2005) - Press Release

    Witnessing the Flash from a Black Hole's Cannibal Act

    Short Gamma-Ray Burst Confirms Formation Scenario
    With ESO PR Photo 39/05.
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  • ESO 31/05 (7 December 2005) - Press Release

    ESO Signs Largest-Ever European Industrial Contract For Ground-Based Astronomy Project ALMA

    With ESO PR Photos 38a-c/05.
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  • ESO 30/05 (30 November 2005) - Press Release

    The Dwarf that Carries a World - HARPS Instrument Finds Neptune-Mass Exoplanet Around Small Star

    With ESO PR Photo 37/05.
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  • ESO 29/05 (24 November 2005) - Press Release

    Sharp Vision Reveals Intimacy of Stars

    AMBER instrument on VLTI Probes Environment of Stars
    With ESO PR Photos 36a-b/05.
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  • ESO 28/05 (10 November 2005) - Press Release

    Setting the Stage for Science in Schools - EIROforum presents the very best of European science teaching

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  • ESO 27/05 (9 November 2005) - Press Release

    Star on the Run - Speeding Star Observed with VLT hints at Massive Black Hole

    With ESO PR Photo 35/05.
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  • ESO 34a-b/05 (4 November 2005) - Press Photos

    Cosmic Portrait of a Perturbed Family

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  • ESO 33a-b/05 (17 October 2005) - Press Photos

    Feeding the Monster - New VLT Images Reveal the Surroundings of a Super-massive Black Hole

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  • ESO 26/05 (6 October 2005) - Press Release

    Flashes Shed Light on Cosmic Clashes - ESO's Telescopes See Afterglows of Elusive Short Bursts

    With ESO PR Photos 32a-c/05.
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  • ESO 31a-b/05 (29 September 2005) - Press Photos

    The Colossal Cosmic Eye


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  • ESO 25/05 (25 September 2005) - Press Release

    Desert Pathfinder at Work - Sub-millimetre APEX telescope inaugurated at Chajnantor

    With ESO PR Photo 30/05.
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  • ESO 24/05 (22 September 2005) - Press Release

    A Cosmic Baby-Boom - Large Population of Galaxies Found in the Young Universe with ESO's VLT

    With ESO PR Photos 29a-b/05.
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  • ESO 23/05 (14 September 2005) - Press Release

    Black Hole in Search of a Home - Astronomers Discover Bright Quasar Without Massive Host Galaxy

    With ESO PR Photos 28a-c/05.
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  • ESO 22/05 (12 September 2005) - Press Release

    Star Death Beacon at the Edge of the Universe - Astronomers Find Farthest Known Gamma-Ray Burst with ESO VLT

    With ESO PR Photos 27a-d/05.
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  • ESO 26/05 (24 August 2005) - Press Photo

    Celestial Blast in Bleak Reticulum


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  • ESO 21/05 (11 August 2005) - Press Release

    Rubble-Pile Minor Planet Sylvia and Her Twins - VLT NACO Instrument Helps Discover First Triple Asteroid

    With ESO PR Photos 25a-b/05 and ESO Video Clip 03/05.
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  • ESO 24a-b/05 (10 August 2005) - Press Photos

    Midsummer's Dream Galaxies.


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  • ESO 20/05 (1 August 2005) - Press Release

    Moving Closer to the Grand Spiral - VLT Enables Most Accurate Distance Measurement to Spiral Galaxy NGC 300

    With ESO PR Photos 23a-b/05.
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  • ESO 19/05 (14 July 2005) - Press Release

    Comet Tempel 1 Went Back to Sleep - Astronomers Having Used ESO Telescopes Start Analysing Unique Dataset on the Comet Following the Deep Impact Mission

    With ESO PR Photo 22/05.
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  • ESO 18/05 (14 July 2005) - Press Release

    New Sub-Millimetre Light in the Desert - APEX telescope Sees First Light at Chajnantor

    With ESO PR Photo 21/05.
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  • ESO 20a-c/05 (30 June 2005) - Press Photos

    Einstein Ring in Distant Universe - Astronomers Using the VLT Discover Bright Cosmic Mirage Far Away


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  • ESO 17/05 (9 June 2005) - Press Release

    Ultra-fast Movies of the Sky - Astronomers Commission New High-Speed Camera on the Very Large Telescope

    With ESO PR Photos 19a-b/05.
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  • ESO 16/05 (7 June 2005) - Press Release

    ESO Receives Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Award in Science Category

    With ESO PR Photo 18/05.
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  • ESO 15/05 (30 May 2005) - Press Release

    Preparing for the Impact - ESO Telescopes Take Snapshot of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 in Readiness for Major Observation Campaign

    With ESO PR Photo 17/05.
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  • ESO 14/05 (16 May 2005) - Press Release

    Dutch Minister of Science Visits ESO Facilities in Chile

    With ESO PR Photos 16a-e/05.
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  • ESO 13/05 (30 April 2005) - Press Release

    Catherine Cesarsky Elected Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences

    With ESO PR Photo 15/05.
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  • ESO 12/05 (30 April 2005) - Press Release

    Yes, it is the Image of an Exoplanet - Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System

    With ESO PR Photos 14a-d/05 and ESO Video Clip 02/05.
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  • ESO 11/05 (27 April 2005) - Press Release

    Thousand Papers and Counting - ESO's Very Large Telescope Passes the 1000 Refereed Publications Mark

    With ESO PR Photo 13/05.
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  • ESO 12a-e/05 (22 April 2005) - Press Photos

    The Blob, the Very Rare Massive Star and the Two Populations - Striking Image of Nebula N214C taken with ESO's NTT at La Silla


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  • ESO 10/05 (20 April 2005) - Press Release

    "Towards a Europe of Knowledge and Innovation", the EIROforum paper on science policy

    With ESO PR Photo 11/05.
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  • ESO 09/05 (7 April 2005) - Press Release

    Is this a Brown Dwarf or an Exoplanet? - New Young Sub-stellar Companion Imaged with the VLT

    With ESO PR Photos 10a-c/05.
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  • ESO 08/05 (22 March 2005) - Press Release

    Young and Exotic Stellar Zoo - ESO's Telescopes Uncover Super Star Cluster in the Milky Way

    With ESO PR Photos 09a-b/05.
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  • ESO 07/05 (15 March 2005) - Press Release

    A Tale of Two Populations - VLT FLAMES Finds Hints of Helium-Richest Stars Ever Seen

    With ESO PR Photos 08a-d/05.
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  • ESO 06/05 (14 March 2005) - Press Release

    VLTI First Fringes with Two Auxiliary Telescopes at Paranal - World's Largest Interferometer with Moving Optical Telescopes on Track

    With ESO PR Photos 07a-e/05 and ESO Video Clip 01/05.
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  • ESO 05/05 (3 March 2005) - Press Release

    Undercover Stars Among Exoplanet Candidates - Very Large Telescope Finds Planet-Sized Transiting Star

    With ESO PR Photos 06a-c/05.
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  • ESO 04/05 (2 March 2005) - Press Release

    Surprise Discovery of Highly Developed Structure in the Young Universe - ESO-VLT and ESA XMM-Newton Together Discover Earliest Massive Cluster of Galaxies Known

    With ESO PR Photos 05a-b/05.
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  • ESO 04/05 (24 February 2005) - Press Photo

    Another Look at an Enigmatic New World - VLT NACO Performs Outstanding Observations of Titan's Atmosphere and Surface

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  • ESO 03/05 (21 February 2005) - Press Release

    ESO's Two Observatories Merge

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  • ESO 02/05 (19 January 2005) - Press Release

    Weighing the Smallest Stars - VLT Finds Young, Very Low Mass Objects Are Twice As Heavy As Predicted.

    With ESO PR Photo 03/05.
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  • ESO 01/05 (13 January 2005) - Press Release

    Rebuilding Spiral Galaxies - Major Observing Programme Leads to New Theory of Galaxy Formation.

    With ESO PR Photos 02a-b/05.
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  • ESO 01/05 (12 January 2005) - Press Photo

    ESO PR Highlights in 2004

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