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 ...

Extensive extinction measurements were made by Dr. H. Tug, using the 0.6-m Bochum telescope (see below). No correlation was found between extinction coefficients and direction of observation, and ...

The M2 Unit is an opto mechanical system constituted by a convex hyperbolic Beryllium mirror ("M2 mirror"), by the electromechanism used tosupport the mirror and to control its position, and by the ...

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 ...

ESO is the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere. It operates the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile and has its headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany.

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its centre. The star, named S301, was detected with ESO’s Very Large Telescope ...

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Today's Picture of the Week depicts different angles of a very peculiar asteroid named (44) Nysa. Asteroids are leftovers from the formation of planets in the Solar System, with the majority found in ...