Gjutningen av råglaset till sekundärspegeln i ESO:s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) har slutförts av SCHOTT i Mainz, Tyskland. Den färdiga spegeln kommer att vara 4,2 meter i diameter och väga 3,5 ton. Den kommer att vara den största sekundärspegeln hittills som använts i ett teleskop och även den största konvexa spegeln som tillverkats.
Pressmeddelandet med bilder och filmer finns på:
http://www.eso.org/public/sweden/news/eso1715/
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ESO:s avdelning för utbildning och utåtriktade aktiviteter
22 maj 2017
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22 maj 2017: ESO has awarded a multi-million euro contract to the international company Teledyne e2v to design and produce a set of Large Visible Sensor Modules for use on the Extremely Large ...
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12 maj 2017: An extension of the agreement between the partners of the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) has been signed, ensuring that this very productive collaboration will continue until the end of 2022 ...
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9 maj 2017: The Australian Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Senator the Hon Arthur Sinodinos, has announced his Government’s intention to open negotiations with ESO on a strategic partnership that would ...
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5 maj 2017: High up on the mountaintop of Paranal in Chile, ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has a view of some of the clearest and darkest skies in the world. But ...
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3 maj 2017: The 2017 Olivier Chesneau Prize has been awarded to Rachael Roettenbacher, for her doctoral thesis entitled “Shifting the Starspot Paradigm through Imaging Magnetic Structures and Evolution”. She is currently a ...
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11 maj 2017: Steven Wilson, British musician and record producer, visited the Paranal and ALMA Observatories to shoot video footage for a song from his forthcoming album “To the Bone”.
At ESO’s ...
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