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27 de Octubre de 2009: Mónica Rubio, Presidenta de la Corporación para la Divulgación de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (CORPDICYT) y Massimo Tarenghi, Representante del Observatorio Europeo Austral (ESO), inauguraron la Sala de Astronomía del Museo de Ciencia y Tecnología de Santiago, ubicado en la Quinta Normal. La actividad se enmarca en el Año Internacional de la Astronomía, una celebración mundial que conmemora el primer uso de un telescopio para ver el Universo por el astrónomo italiano Galileo Galilei hace 400 años. Para Mónica Rubio, “la renovación de esta Sala de Astronomía del Museo es fundamental considerando el momento en el que actualmente se encuentra la Astronomía en Chile, debido a la relevancia mundial que han tenido los proyectos que en los últimos años se han desarrollado en el norte de nuestro país, así como también la importancia que tiene la entrega de dos premios nacionales consecutivos en esta disciplina”. La nueva Sala de ...

26 de Octubre de 2009: In close cooperation with ESO as part of its International Year of Astronomy 2009 activities, the production companies parallax raumprojektion and fact&film; have produced a unique 3D documentary about the most powerful visible-light telescope in the world, ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). One of the world’s largest telescopes, capable of taking some of the sharpest pictures of the night sky, the VLT is located in a breathtaking, arid environment, providing astronomers with superb sky conditions as they study the deep Universe. The film, The EYE 3D — Life and Research on Cerro Paranal, stars the young scientist and ESOcast host Dr J, aka Joe Liske. In June 2009, a German film crew who specialise in making 3D movies accompanied Dr J on a trip from ESO Headquarters in Garching, Germany, to the landscapes of the Atacama Desert in the North of Chile, one of the driest sites on Earth and ...

19 de Octubre de 2009: On Monday 19 October 2009, astronomers will report at the international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, Portugal, on a significant discovery in the field of exoplanets, obtained with the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO's 3.6-metre telescope. ESO will host a media teleconference on Monday 19 October 2009, at 13:45 pm CEST, to be streamed online. The teleconference participants are: Stéphane Udry, Geneva Observatory, Switzerland Xavier Bonfils, LAOG, Grenoble, France Nuno Santos, University of Porto, Portugal To participate in the teleconference, reporters must get accredited by contacting Henri Boffin by email (hboffin@eso.org). Reporters will need to have access to a computer, with a recent version of Adobe's Macromedia Flash Player installed and an Internet connection with a minimum bandwidth requirement of 56 kB/s. Further information will be provided to the accredited reporters. Graphics and supporting information will be shown during the teleconference, ...

5 de Octubre de 2009: Entre el 5 –11 de octubre se celebra en todo Chile la Semana de la Ciencia y la Tecnología. Este año está dedicada al Año Internacional de la Astronomía 2009, y ESO está jugando un activo rol. Todos están invitados a los siguientes eventos y exhibiciones: El lunes 5 de octubre es el lanzamiento en Antofagasta del GalileoMóvil, un proyecto itinerante de extensión. Para celebrar el inicio del viaje del GalileoMóvil, que tendrá dos meses de duración, habrá una fiesta pública de estrellas, en colaboración con la Universidad Católica del Norte y Explora Conicyt de la II Región. Lugar y hora: Plaza Berta González, Universidad Católica del Norte (Av. Angamos 0610), comienza a las 19:00 hrs. El viernes 9 de octubre en Santiago, Explora Conicyt y el Metro de Santiago inauguran la nueva exposición interactiva "Noticias del Universo”, desarrollada especialmente para el Año Internacional de la Astronomía. En los próximos ...

18 de Septiembre de 2009: As of today, 18 September 2009, ESO is pleased to announce that important parts of its extensive website have been translated into eleven European languages, covering all ESO member states as well as some additional countries. Many more readers will now be able to learn all about ESO's impressive telescopes and projects in their own languages. These include the most advanced observing facility in the world, the Very Large Telescope, as well as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and the planned European Extremely Large Telescope. ESO press releases will also now be available in these languages, in addition to descriptions of ESO-related events taking place in the ESO member states. This new service is courtesy of the ESO Science Outreach Network (ESON), a network of individuals in several countries — including all the ESO member states — who serve as local contacts for the media and the general public in ...

3 de Septiembre de 2009: ESO Messenger No. 137 is available for download.

3 de Septiembre de 2009: ESO Open House Day — 24 October 2009.

1 de Septiembre de 2009: ESO Call for Proposals for Period 85 released. Deadline is 1 October 2009.

16 de Julio de 2009: ESO Director General Tim de Zeeuw is the 2009 recipient of the Dirk Brouwer Award from the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society. The Dirk Brouwer Award is granted to recognise outstanding contributions to the field of Dynamical Astronomy, including celestial mechanics, astrometry, geophysics, stellar systems, galactic and extragalactic dynamics. The citation for the award reads: "Tim de Zeeuw burst on the dynamical scene with an outstanding PhD thesis on the dynamics of triaxial stellar systems. His mathematically elegant description of the density profiles and orbits in separable Staeckel potentials invigorated the entire field and remains a cornerstone on which more recent understanding of elliptical galaxies is founded. Subsequently, he applied his physical understanding of orbital dynamics to the more complicated potentials of real galaxies that contain density cusps, black holes, etc. In more recent years he was one of the co-founders of the hugely successful SAURON ...

26 de Junio de 2009: A vacancy for a Director of Programmes has been opened.

17 de Junio de 2009: The ESO Annual Report 2008 is available for download

15 de Junio de 2009: ESO Exhibition at Seagate Young Innovators (Dublin) — 18 june

5 de Junio de 2009: ESO Messenger No. 136 is available for download.

29 de Mayo de 2009: A new contract for the publication of the scientific journal Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A;) has been signed with EDP Sciences (EDPS), by Prof Tim de Zeeuw, Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and Dr Jean-Marc Quilbé, Managing Director of EDPS, at the ESO Headquarters in Garching near Munich, Germany. “It is a great pleasure for the Board to announce that the contract for the production of A&A; from January 2010 has been signed at ESO with EDP Sciences. Thus, for a renewed period, EDPS will continue as the publisher of A&A;”, said Professor Georges Meynet, Chairman of the Board of Directors of A&A.; The Board is in charge of managing the journal. It consists of representatives of A&A;’s 23 member countries plus ESO, which has handled the legal matters of A&A; since the journal was established in 1969. “Astronomy & Astrophysics is owned by and operated for the ...

15 de Mayo de 2009: Media Advisory: press conference on X-shooter — 25 May 2009.

15 de Mayo de 2009: Follow the news about Hubble Servicing Mission 4 on its blog.

23 de Abril de 2009: The Portal to the Universe, hosted at ESO Headquarters, is live!

16 de Abril de 2009: ESO to announce major exoplanet finding and provide update on the E-ELT — 21 Apr. 2009

2 de Abril de 2009: VLT Interferometer image of young high-mass binary star.

25 de Marzo de 2009: 10 Million Euro for RadioNet extension.