ESO Press Releases and Photos 1999
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| ESO Press Photos 46a-j/99 (22 December 1999) : One Hundred Thousand Galaxies at a Glance - The ESO/MPG Wide Field Imager Explores the Distant Universe . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 20/99 (16 December 1999) : New VLT Observations Address the Age of the Universe - First Detailed Spectra of White Dwarf Stars in a Globular Cluster . With ESO Press Photos 45a-b/99 . | |
| ESO Press Release 19/99 (14 December 1999) : REOSC Delivers the Best Astronomical Mirror in the World to ESO . With ESO Press Photo 44/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 43a-h/99 (8 December 1999) : Recent Views from the Paranal Observatory . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 42a-ad/99 (3 December 1999) : Third VLT 8.2-m Mirror Successfully Coated and Installed at MELIPAL . Access the photos via the caption. | |
| ESO Press Release 18/99 (29 November 1999) : VLT Commissioning Data Now Publicly Available . With ESO Press Photo 41/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 17/99 (17 November 1999) : A Powerful Twin Arrives - First Images from FORS2 at VLT KUEYEN on Paranal . With ESO Press Photos 40a-i/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photo 39/99 (26 October 1999) : Solitude of an Observatory - Panoramic View with La Silla . Access the photo via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 16/99 (13 October 1999) : Lots of Small Stars Born in Starburst Region - Decisive Study of NGC 3603 with the VLT and ISAAC . With ESO Press Photos 38a-b/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO PR Video Clip 08/99 (7 October 1999) : ALMA Moves! Access the clip via the text. | |
| ESO Press Release 15/99 (5 October 1999) : Successful "First Light" for VLT High-Resolution Spectrograph - Great Research Prospects with UVES at KUEYEN . With ESO Press Photos 37a-e/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 36a-v/99 (17 September 1999) : Recent VLT Progress . Access the photos via the caption. | |
| ESO Press Release 14/99 (18 August 1999) : Faintest Methane Brown Dwarf Discovered with the NTT and VLT . With ESO Press Photos 35a-b/99 . | HI-RES |
| Report about the Solar Eclipse on August 11, 1999 - Impressions at the ESO HQ - Images - Spectra (18 August 1999). | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 34a-g/99 and Video Clips 07a-g/99 (13 August 1999) : The VLT Writes Its Name: Wonders of Active Optics . Access the photos and video clips via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 13/99 (30 July 1999) : Watching the Birth of a Galaxy Cluster? - First Visiting Astronomers to VLT ANTU Observe the Early Universe . With ESO Press Photos 33a-b/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 12/99 (29 July 1999) : Extrasolar Giant Planet in Earth-like Orbit: Discovery from a Long-term Project at La Silla . With ESO Press Photos 32a-b/99 . | |
| ESO Press Photos 31a-d/99 (28 July 1999) : A Home in the Desert: The Paranal Residencia . Access the photos via the caption. | |
| ESO Press Release 11/99 (20 July 1999) : A Vanishing Star Revisited: VLT Observations of an Unusual Stellar System . With ESO Press Photos 30a-d/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO PR Video Clip 06/99 (14 July 1999) : Impressions from the ESO Solar Eclipse Expedition in 1994 . Access the clip via the text. | |
| ESO Press Photos 29a-c/99 and Video Clip 05/99 (2 July 1999) : Secrets of a Dark Cloud: Unique Infrared SOFI Images of Barnard 68 Probe the Very First Stages of Star Formation Access the photos and the video clip via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 28a-b/99 (29 June 1999) : Comet Hale-Bopp - Still Enormous! Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 27a-b/99 and Video Clip 04/99 (29 June 1999) : Scouting for ROSETTA: VLT Observes Comet Wirtanen at Aphelion . Access the photos and the video clip via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 26a-f/99 (22 June 1999) : Beautiful Nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud: New Images from the Wide Field Imager at La Silla . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 10/99 (21 June 1999) : VLT Data Flow System Begins Operation: Building a Terabyte Archive at the ESO Headquarters . With ESO Press Photos 25a-c/99 . | HI-RES |
| Joint Press Release by NSF and ESO (10 June 1999) : Europe and US to Collaborate on the Design and Development of Giant Radio Telescope Project in Chile : High Goals for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) . | |
| ESO Press Release 09/99 (10 June 1999) : The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) . With ESO Press Photos 24a-e/99 and ESO PR Video Clip 03/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 23a-b/99 (27 May 1999) : Fourth VLT 8.2-m Unit Telescope Assembled . Access the photos via the caption. | |
| ESO Press Release 08/99 (18 May 1999) : Southern Fireworks above ESO Telescopes : New Insights from Observations of Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst . With ESO Press Photos 22a-f/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 21a-b/99 (30 April 1999) : A Star-Forming Region in Ara: New Wide-Field Camera at La Silla Looks at RCW 108 . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 20a-f/99 (30 April 1999) : Of Holes in the Sky and Pretty Galaxies: Six New VLT Photos from ANTU/FORS1 . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 07/99 (7 April 1999) : Two VLT 8.2-m Unit Telescopes in Action : Visitors at ANTU - Astronomical Images from KUEYEN . With ESO Press Photos 19a-e/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 18a-d/99 (26 March 1999) : First Colour Photo from ESO's Wide-Field-Imager at La Silla: Portrait of a Nearby Spiral Galaxy . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 06/99 (6 March 1999) : VLT Unit Telescopes Named at Paranal Inauguration : First Light for UT2 Achieved Ahead of Time . With ESO Press Photos 17a-c/99 and audio sequence. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 05/99 (27 February 1999) : VLT Opening Symposium : Scientists Meet in Antofagasta to Discuss Front-Line Astrophysics . This Press Release is associated with ESO Press Photos 08/99 to 16/99 , to which individual links are available below. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 16a-c/99 (27 February 1999) : A VLT Spectrum of a Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy: An Arc at z = 3.23 in Galaxy Cluster 1ES 0657-55 . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photo 15/99 (27 February 1999) : VLT Observes a Double Stellar Cluster in the LMC: Supernovae Induce Star Formation . Access the photo via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 14a-c/99 (27 February 1999) : VLT Reaches Out Towards the Horizon: FORS Spectra of Very Distant Quasars . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 13a-b/99 (27 February 1999) : Unusual VLT Views of a Spiral Galaxy: The colours of NGC 1232 . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 12a-f/99 (27 February 1999) : VLT Studies Very Distant Galaxies: FORS Takes Spectra of Faint Primordial Objects . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 11a-c/99 (27 February 1999) : The VLT Moves into the Infrared: A Selection of ISAAC Spectra . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 10a-d/99 (27 February 1999) : VLT Observes Small and Nearby Galaxies: The Stars in Antlia and NGC 6822 . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 09a-b/99 (27 February 1999) : VLT Studies a Moderately Distant Cluster of Galaxies: The FORS/ISAAC Cluster Deep Field . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 08a-e/99 (27 February 1999) : VLT Photos of NGC 1365: Fine Details in a Barred Galaxy . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 07a-l/99 (25 February 1999) : First Light Approaches for Second VLT Unit Telescope . Access the photos via the caption. | |
| ESO Press Release 04/99 (18 February 1999) : The Making of the Milky Way Halo : The VLT Watches a Dissolving Stellar Cluster . With ESO Press Photos 06a-c/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO PR Video Clip 02/99 (16 February 1999) : VLT UT1 Soon Ready to Receive the Astronomers . Access the clip via the text. | |
| ESO Press Photos 05a-d/99 (11 February 1999) : Three VLT UT1 Photos and a Viewgraph . Access via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 04a-h/99 (4 February 1999) : Third 8.2-m VLT Mirror Arrives Safely at Paranal . Access the photos via the caption. | |
| ESO Press Release 03/99 (2 February 1999) : FEROS Finds a Strange Star : New Spectrograph Explores the Skies from La Silla . With ESO Press Photos 03a-b/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO PR Video Clip 01/99 (26 January 1999) : Into the Invisible with ISAAC . Access the clip via the text. | |
| ESO Press Release 02/99 (15 January 1999) : First Light with a 67-Million-Pixel WFI Camera . With ESO Press Photos 02a-e/99 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 01a-h/99 (14 January 1999) : New Photographs from the Paranal Observatory . Access the photos via the caption. | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 01/99 (8 January 1999) : Catherine Cesarsky - ESO's Next Director General . | |