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Experience spring at ESO's Paranal Observatory: slots now open for free public tours from October through December
1+ week, 4+ day ago (747+ words) Today, September 2, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is opening reservations for daytime public tours for the southern-hemisphere 2026 spring season (October through December) at its Paranal Observatory in Chile. ESO has been offering a regular public visit programme to its sites…...
A rare snowy day for the world's biggest eye on the sky | ESO Nederland
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (610+ words) An unusual sight greets Cerro Armazones, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, in this drone image, taken on 19 August 2026. Snow blankets parts of the mountain while low clouds drift around the dome of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), glowing in the light…...
Ximena Lincolao, Chile's Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation, visits ESO's Paranal Observatory
2+ week, 4+ day ago (637+ words) On Tuesday August 25, 2026, Ximena Lincolao, Chile’s Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation, visited ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Antofagasta Region. The minister was accompanied by Héctor Bravo, the Science Regional Ministerial Secretariat of Antofagasta. During the visit, they toured…...
Milky Way's fastest star orbits our supermassive black hole so closely it feels its spin
3+ week, 4+ day ago (610+ words) “Worldwide, Paranal is the only place where you can do this type of observations because no other observatory in the world has four 8-metre telescopes that can act together as an interferometer,” says co-author Frank Eisenhauer, GRAVITY+ Principal Investigator and…...
Does the Milky Way central black hole rotate? This star could tell us | ESO Chasing Starlight
3+ week, 4+ day ago (485+ words) Based on research by the GRAVITY collaboration Produced by ESO, the European Southern Observatory (eso.org) The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out…...