The ESO Science Newsletter is intended to keep the community informed about current activities of interest at ESO. The newsletter appears roughly every two to three months or whenever important news ...

PIONIER is a H-band 4-beam combiner instrument at the VLT interferometer. It is originally a visitor instrument that by agreement with IPAG is offered to the ESO community from P96 onwards as a ...

Proposals for observing time on all facilities of the La Silla Paranal Observatory (VLT/I, NTT, 3.6m) must be submitted using the p1 web system: The new p1 user interface collects the same information ...

Several teams provide support in regard to ESO's telescopes and instruments, e.g. support for observing proposal preparation and submission, observation scheduling, data flow operation, information ...

Please find a list of arc lines in the following table. There is noguaranty for the accuracy of the wavelengths. The optimum choice of lines will depend on the spectral resolution of the grisms and ...

Revealing hidden stars and galaxies: new MOONS instrument at the Very Large Telescope makes first observations ...

Experience spring at ESO's Paranal Observatory: slots now open for free public tours from October through December ...

Artist's impression of the planet orbiting Proxima Centauri (Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser) Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest ...

Artist’s impression of the planet Ross 128 b (Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser) A temperate Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from the Solar System by a team using ESO’s unique ...

Why engineers have built a new instrument with a thousand robotic arms How this new instrument will help the VLT study galaxies both far away and close to home The challenges of building and testing a ...

ESO's ruling body is its Council, which delegates day to day responsibility to the Executive under ESO's Director General. Other governing bodies of ESO are: the Finance Committee (FC), the Scientific ...

The 2.2m telescope at La Silla has been in operation since early 1984 and is on indefinite loan to ESO from the Max Planck Gesellschaft. The telescope time is shared between the MPI and ESO Observers.