ESO Press Releases and Photos 2000
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| ESO Press Photo 37/00 (22 December 2000) : Season's Greetings! . | |
| ESO Press Photo 36/00 (20 December 2000) : The Paranal Metamorphosis - From Mountain Top to Top Observatory . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 27/00 (20 December 2000) : VLT Observations Confirm that the Universe Was Hotter in the Past - UVES Measures the Cosmic Temperature 12 Billion Years Ago . With PR Photo 35/00 | |
| ESO Press Release 26/00 (13 December 2000) : Three Good Reasons for Celebrating the ESO/ST-ECF Science Archive Facility - Great Demand for Data from New "Virtual Observatory" . With PR Photo 34/00 | |
| ESO Press Release 25/00 (8 December 2000) : Most Massive Spiral Galaxy Known in the Universe - The VLT Observes Rapid Motion in Distant Object . With PR Photos 33a-c/00 | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 24/00 (1 December 2000) : The VLT Weighs the Invisible Matter in the Universe - Shapes and Orientations of 76,000 Distant Galaxies . With PR Photo 32/00 | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 23/00 (22 November 2000) : UK Announces Intention to Join ESO . | |
| ESO Press Release 22/00 (13 November 2000) : MONA, LISA and VINCI Soon Ready to Travel to Paranal - First Instruments for the VLT Interferometer . With PR Photo 31/00 . | |
| ESO Press Photos 30a-b/00 (27 October 2000) : Stellar Birth in a Dark Cloud - A Unique, Wide-Field Infrared SOFI Image of RCW 108 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 29a-c/00 (26 October 2000) : More Saturnian Moons . | |
| ESO Press Release 21/00 (18 October 2000) : Physics in the Spotlight - CERN, ESA and ESO Put Physics On Stage . | |
| ESO Press Release 20/00 (17 October 2000) : The Most Remote Gamma-Ray Burst - ESO Telescopes Observe "Lightning" in the Young Universe . With PR Photos 28a-c/00 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photo 27/00 (13 October 2000) : Retracted in August 2001 : ADONIS Discovers Dust Disk around a Star with a Planet - Zodiacal Light in the iota Horologii Extrasolar Planetary System . | |
| ESO Press Photos 26a-e/00 (11 October 2000) : A Milestone for the VLT Interferometer - First Underground Delay Line Now on Rails at Paranal . | |
| ESO Press Photos 25a-b/00 (6 October 2000) : Stars and Nebulae in the Southern Crown - A Colourful WFI Portrait of a Star-Forming Region . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 24a-b/00 (14 September 2000) : Peering into a Star Factory - SOFI Finds Young and Massive Stars in the Omega Nebula . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 19/00 (11 September 2000) : The Mystery of the Lonely Neutron Star - The VLT Reveals Bowshock Nebula around RX J1856.5-3754 . With PR Photos 23a-b/00 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 18/00 (4 September 2000) : Fourth Light at Paranal! VLT YEPUN Joins ANTU, KUEYEN and MELIPAL . With PR Photos 22a-g/00 and Video Clip 06/00 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 21a-b/00 (28 August 2000) : "First Light" Approaches for Fourth VLT Unit Telescope - YEPUN's Secondary Mirror Now in Place . | |
| ESO Press Photo 20/00 (8 August 2000) : The VLT Observes Comet LINEAR's "Shower" . | |
| ESO Press Photos 19a-b/00 (4 August 2000) : ESO Observations of New Moon of Jupiter . | |
| ESO Press Release 17/00 (28 July 2000) : Cannibal Stars Cause Giant Explosions in Fornax Cluster Galaxy - The VLT Observes Most Remote Novae Ever Seen . With PR Photos 18a-c/00 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 16/00 (21 July 2000) : Youngest Brown Dwarf Yet in a Multiple Stellar System... and the Sharpest Image (0.18 arcsec) from the VLT so far...! . With PR Photos 17a-d/00 . | |
| ESO Press Release 15/00 (27 June 2000) : Portugal to Accede to ESO . With PR Photo 16/00 and Video Clip 05/00 . | |
| ESO Press Photos 15a-ac/00 (16 June 2000) : Paranal Impressions . | HI-RES |
| A Home in the Desert: The Basecamp. With PR Photos 15a-c/00 . | |
| Night Falls at Paranal: Preparing for the Observations. With PR Photos 15d-i/00 . | |
| Hub of the Observatory: The VLT Control Room. With PR Photos 15j-m/00 . | |
| A New Coat for a Large Mirror: Ensuring a Highly Reflecting Surface. With PR Photos 15n-y/00 . | |
| KUEYEN Start-Up: Reinstallation of the Mirrors. With PR Photos 15z-ac/00 . | |
| ESO Press Release 14/00 (24 May 2000) : With the VLT Interferometer towards Sharper Vision - The Nova-ESO VLTI Expertise Centre (NEVEC) Opens in Leiden (The Netherlands) . With ESO PR Photos 14a-b/00 and Video Clips 04a-b/00 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 13/00 (4 May 2000) : Exoplanets Galore! - Eight New Very Low-Mass Companions to Solar-Type Stars Discovered at La Silla . With ESO PR Photos 12/00 and 13a-c/00 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 12/00 (3 May 2000) : Unveiling the Secret of a Virgo Dwarf Galaxy . With ESO PR Photo 11/00 . | |
| ESO PR Video Clip 03/00 (2 May 2000) : "Physics On Stage" Trailer . Access the clip via the text. | |
| ESO Press Release 11/00 (13 April 2000) : Portugal - ESO - VLT" - Scientific Workshop, Public Exhibition and Press Conference in Lisbon (April 17-18, 2000) | |
| ESO Press Release 10/00 (13 April 2000) : First Visiting Astronomers at VLT KUEYEN - A Deep Look into the Universal Hall of Mirrors With ESO PR Photos 10a-b/00 . | |
| ESO Press Release 09/00 (10 April 2000) : First Light for ASTROVIRTEL Project | |
| ESO Press Release 08/00 (6 April 2000) : UVES Analyses the Universe: A First Portfolio of Most Promising Results . With 8 research reports attached: | |
| A. The Beryllium Abundance in Extremely Metal-Poor Stars. With PR Photo 09a/00 . | |
| B. The Isotopic Lithium Abundance in a Metal-Poor Halo Star. With PR Photo 09b/00 . | |
| C. Tracking the Age of the Universe with Radioactive Elements in Stars. With PR Photo 09c/00 . | |
| D. Spectra of Individual Stars in Other Galaxies. With PR Photo 09d/00 . | |
| E. Hunting Black Holes in the Nuclei of Galaxies. With PR Photo 09e/00 . | |
| F. A First Glimpse at the Intergalactic Medium in the Redshift Interval z = 1.5 - 2.0. With PR Photos 09f-h/00 . | |
| G. UVES Takes a Deep Look at the Intergalactic Gas in the Direction of the Hubble Space Telescope Deep Field South. With PR Photo 09i/00 . | |
| H. First Accurate Measurements of the Oxygen and Zinc Abundance in a Damped System at z > 3. With PR Photo 09j/00. | |
| ESO Press Release 07/00 (16 March 2000) : Major Conference about Astronomical Technology in Munich - Press Conference on Monday, March 27, 2000 . | |
| ESO Press Release 06/00 (14 March 2000) : ALMA Partners Award Prototype Antenna Contracts in Europe and the USA . | |
| ESO Press Release 05/00 (14 March 2000) : Discovery of Molecular Gas Shells around the Unusual Galaxy Centaurus A . With ESO Press Photos 08a-b/00 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 04/00 (1 March 2000) : CERN, ESA and ESO Launch "Physics On Stage" (Joint release with CERN and ESA). | |
| ESO Press Release 03/00 (23 February 2000) : Britain Approaches ESO about Installation of Major New Telescope at Paranal . | |
| ESO Press Photos 07a-c/00 (23 February 2000) : Fine Shades of a Sombrero - A New Look at an Unusual Galaxy . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 02/00 (17 February 2000) : Into the Epoch of Galaxy Formation - Infrared VLT Observations Identify Hidden Galaxies in the Early Universe . With ESO Press Photos 06a-b/00 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 05a-c/00 (8 February 2000) : Next VLT Instrument Ready for the Astronomers - FORS2 Commissioning Period Successfully Terminated . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Release 01/00 (28 January 2000) : And Then There Were Three...! - VLT MELIPAL Achieves Successful "First Light" in Record Time . With ESO Press Photos 04a-d/00 and ESO PR Video Clip 02/00 . | HI-RES |
| ESO Press Photos 03a-n/00 (21 January 2000) : Final Tests before MELIPAL "First Light" - Secondary Mirror Now in Place . | |
| ESO Press Photos 02a-h/00 and Video Clip 01/00 (12 January 2000) : First Light Approaches for VLT MELIPAL . Video Clip: "Flight around Paranal" . | |
| ESO Press Photo 01/00 (5 January 2000) : ESO 1999 PR Retrospective . | |