ESO Video News Reels

ESO Video News Reels are targeted at broadcast news and are issued at irregular intervals whenever there are important developments at ESO.

Typically, a Video News Reel features an A- and B-roll with a total duration no longer than some 15 minutes. VNRs are issued on Betacam-SP/PAL tapes and are downloadable in part as digital files.

In order to obtain this material please contact broadcast@eso.org.

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Below is a list of currently available Video News Reels.

• VNR 32/07 (July 2007): "Birth of a Colossus on Wheels". First ALMA Transporter Ready to Go.
• VNR 22/07 (April 2007): "Astronomers Find First Earth-like Planet in Habitable Zone"
• VNR 08/07 (February 2007): "SN1987A's Twentieth Anniversary"
• VNR 50/06 (December 2006): "A Dramatic Stellar Crib""
• VNR 46/06 (December 2006): " The Rise of a Giant"
• VNR 31/06 (August 2006): " Far Away Galaxy Under The Microscope"
• VNR 18/06 (May 2006): " Trio of Neptunes and their Belt"
• VNR 07/06 (February 2006): " Man-made Star Shines in the Southern Sky"
• VNR 03/06 (January 2006): " It' s Far, It' s Small, It' s Cool: It' s an Icy Exoplanet! Discovery of a 5 Earth-mass exoplanet "
• VNR No. 15 (March 2005): " Second Auxiliary Telescope for the VLT"
• VNR No. 14 (January 2004): " First Auxiliary Telescope for the VLT Interferometer Installed at Paranal"
• VNR No. 13 (December 2001): " First Light NAOS-CONICA"
• VNR No. 12 (March 2001): " First Light for the VLT Interferometer"
• VNR No. 11 (March 2001): " Video sequences of Astronomical Images"
• VNR No. 10 (March 2001): " Video sequences of the Very Large Telescope"
• VNR No. 09 (May 2000): " The Sharpest Vision - Interferometry with the VLT"
• VNR No. 08 (January 2000): " Soon First Light for VLT MELIPAL"
• VNR No. 07 (July 1999): " Impressions from the ESO Solar Eclipse Expedition in 1994"
• VNR No. 06 (June 1999): " VLT Observes Comet Wirtanen"
• VNR No. 05 (June 1999): " ALMA at Chajnantor"
• VNR No. 04 (February 1999): " VLT UT1 Soon Ready to Receive the Astronomers"
• VNR No. 03 (January 1999) : " Into the Invisible with ISAAC"
• VNR No. 02 (November 1998): " The high-dispersion UVES spectrograph"
• VNR No. 01 (October 1998) : " Recent work at the first 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT1)"