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First Temperate Exoplanet Sized Up

17 Mar 2010 at 11:00am  Combining observations from the CoRoT satellite and the ESO HARPS instrument, astronomers have discovered the first ?normal? exoplanet that can be studied in great detail. Designated Corot-9b, the planet regularly passes in front of a star similar to the Sun located 1500 light-years away from Earth towards the constellation of Serpens (the Snake).
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Jupiter?s Spot Seen Glowing

16 Mar 2010 at 2:00pm  New ground-breaking thermal images obtained with ESO?s Very Large Telescope and other powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter?s Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system linking its temperature, winds, pressure and composition with its colour.
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The Cosmic Bat

3 Mar 2010 at 3:00am  The delicate nebula NGC 1788, located in a dark and often neglected corner of the Orion constellation, is revealed in a new and finely nuanced image that ESO is releasing today. Although this ghostly cloud is rather isolated from Orion?s bright stars, the latter?s powerful winds and light have had a strong impact on the nebula, forging its shape and making it home to a multitude of infant suns.
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Light, Wind and Fire

24 Feb 2010 at 3:00am  Today ESO has released a dramatic new image of NGC 346, the brightest star-forming region in our neighbouring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210 000 light-years away towards the constellation of Tucana (the Toucan). The light, wind and heat given off by massive stars have dispersed the glowing gas within and around this star cluster, forming a surrounding wispy nebular structure that looks like a cobweb. NGC 346, like other beautiful astronomical scenes, is a work in progress, and changes as the aeons pass. As yet more stars form from loose matter in the area, they will ignite, scattering leftover dust and gas, carving out great ripples and altering the face of this lustrous object.
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No Place to Hide: Missing Primitive Stars Outside Milky Way Uncovered

17 Feb 2010 at 3:00am  After years of successful concealment, the most primitive stars outside our Milky Way galaxy have finally been unmasked. New observations using ESO?s Very Large Telescope have been used to solve an important astrophysical puzzle concerning the oldest stars in our galactic neighbourhood ? which is crucial for our understanding of the earliest stars in the Universe.
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Orion in a New Light

10 Feb 2010 at 3:00am  The Orion Nebula reveals many of its hidden secrets in a dramatic image taken by ESO?s new VISTA survey telescope. The telescope?s huge field of view can show the full splendour of the whole nebula and VISTA?s infrared vision also allows it to peer deeply into dusty regions that are normally hidden and expose the curious behaviour of the very active young stars buried there.
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The Stars behind the Curtain

3 Feb 2010 at 3:00am  ESO is releasing a magnificent VLT image of the giant stellar nursery surrounding NGC 3603, in which stars are continuously being born. Embedded in this scenic nebula is one of the most luminous and most compact clusters of young, massive stars in our Milky Way, which therefore serves as an excellent ?local? analogue of very active star-forming regions in other galaxies. The cluster also hosts the most massive star to be ?weighed? so far.
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Black Hole Hunters Set New Distance Record

27 Jan 2010 at 3:00am  Astronomers using ESO?s Very Large Telescope have detected, in another galaxy, a stellar-mass black hole much farther away than any other previously known. With a mass above fifteen times that of the Sun, this is also the second most massive stellar-mass black hole ever found. It is entwined with a star that will soon become a black hole itself.
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On the Trail of a Cosmic Cat

20 Jan 2010 at 3:00am  ESO has just released a stunning new image of the vast cloud known as the Cat?s Paw Nebula or NGC 6334. This complex region of gas and dust, where numerous massive stars are born, lies near the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, and is heavily obscured by intervening dust clouds.
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VLT Captures First Direct Spectrum of an Exoplanet

13 Jan 2010 at 3:00am  By studying a triple planetary system that resembles a scaled-up version of our own Sun?s family of planets, astronomers have been able to obtain the first direct spectrum ? the ?chemical fingerprint? [1] ? of a planet orbiting a distant star [2], thus bringing new insights into the planet's formation and composition. The result represents a milestone in the search for life elsewhere in the Universe.
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ESO - The European Southern Observatory Homepage
The European Southern Observatory is an intergovernmental, European organisation for astronomical research and operates astronomical observatories in Chile.

Deep Impact at ESO
ESO's telescopes will also be used in the post-impact observations. As soon as the comet is visible after the impact from Chile, all major ESO telescopes - the four Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope Array at Paranal, as well as the 3.6m, 3.5m NTT and the 2.2m ESO/MPG telescopes at La Silla - will be observing Comet 9P/Tempel 1.

The site contains a number of animations, photos, interviews and background information on the mission and comets in general.

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