ESO Press Releases and Photos 2005
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ESO 43/05 (29 December 2005) - Press Photo
Season's Greetings!
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ESO 42a-b/05 (25 December 2005) - Press Photo
The Cosmic Christmas Ghost - Two Stunning Pictures of Young Stellar Clusters
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ESO 34/05 (22 December 2005) - Press Release
ALMA On the Move - ESO Awards Important Contract for the ALMA Project
With ESO PR Photos 41a-b/05.
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ESO 33/05 (21 December 2005) - Press Release
Allo, Allo? A Star is Ringing - VLT Helps Measuring Tortoise-like Motion
With ESO PR Photos 40a-b/05.
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ESO 32/05 (14 December 2005) - Press Release
Witnessing the Flash from a Black Hole's Cannibal Act
Short Gamma-Ray Burst Confirms Formation Scenario
With ESO PR Photo 39/05.
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ESO 31/05 (7 December 2005) - Press Release
ESO Signs Largest-Ever European Industrial Contract For Ground-Based Astronomy Project ALMA
With ESO PR Photos 38a-c/05.
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ESO 30/05 (30 November 2005) - Press Release
The Dwarf that Carries a World - HARPS Instrument Finds Neptune-Mass Exoplanet Around Small Star
With ESO PR Photo 37/05.
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ESO 29/05 (24 November 2005) - Press Release
Sharp Vision Reveals Intimacy of Stars
AMBER instrument on VLTI Probes Environment of Stars
With ESO PR Photos 36a-b/05.
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ESO 28/05 (10 November 2005) - Press Release
Setting the Stage for Science in Schools - EIROforum presents the very best of European science teaching
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ESO 27/05 (9 November 2005) - Press Release
Star on the Run - Speeding Star Observed with VLT hints at Massive Black Hole
With ESO PR Photo 35/05.
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ESO 34a-b/05 (4 November 2005) - Press Photos
Cosmic Portrait of a Perturbed Family
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ESO 33a-b/05 (17 October 2005) - Press Photos
Feeding the Monster - New VLT Images Reveal the Surroundings of a Super-massive Black Hole
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ESO 26/05 (6 October 2005) - Press Release
Flashes Shed Light on Cosmic Clashes - ESO's Telescopes See Afterglows of Elusive Short Bursts
With ESO PR Photos 32a-c/05.
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ESO 31a-b/05 (29 September 2005) - Press Photos
The Colossal Cosmic Eye
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ESO 25/05 (25 September 2005) - Press Release
Desert Pathfinder at Work - Sub-millimetre APEX telescope inaugurated at Chajnantor
With ESO PR Photo 30/05.
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ESO 24/05 (22 September 2005) - Press Release
A Cosmic Baby-Boom - Large Population of Galaxies Found in the Young Universe with ESO's VLT
With ESO PR Photos 29a-b/05.
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ESO 23/05 (14 September 2005) - Press Release
Black Hole in Search of a Home - Astronomers Discover Bright Quasar Without Massive Host Galaxy
With ESO PR Photos 28a-c/05.
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ESO 22/05 (12 September 2005) - Press Release
Star Death Beacon at the Edge of the Universe - Astronomers Find Farthest Known Gamma-Ray Burst with ESO VLT
With ESO PR Photos 27a-d/05.
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ESO 26/05 (24 August 2005) - Press Photo
Celestial Blast in Bleak Reticulum
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ESO 21/05 (11 August 2005) - Press Release
Rubble-Pile Minor Planet Sylvia and Her Twins - VLT NACO Instrument Helps Discover First Triple Asteroid
With ESO PR Photos 25a-b/05 and ESO Video Clip 03/05.
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ESO 24a-b/05 (10 August 2005) - Press Photos
Midsummer's Dream Galaxies. -
ESO 20/05 (1 August 2005) - Press Release
Moving Closer to the Grand Spiral - VLT Enables Most Accurate Distance Measurement to Spiral Galaxy NGC 300
With ESO PR Photos 23a-b/05.
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ESO 19/05 (14 July 2005) - Press Release
Comet Tempel 1 Went Back to Sleep - Astronomers Having Used ESO Telescopes Start Analysing Unique Dataset on the Comet Following the Deep Impact Mission
With ESO PR Photo 22/05.
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ESO 18/05 (14 July 2005) - Press Release
New Sub-Millimetre Light in the Desert - APEX telescope Sees First Light at Chajnantor
With ESO PR Photo 21/05.
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ESO 20a-c/05 (30 June 2005) - Press Photos
Einstein Ring in Distant Universe - Astronomers Using the VLT Discover Bright Cosmic Mirage Far Away
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ESO 17/05 (9 June 2005) - Press Release
Ultra-fast Movies of the Sky - Astronomers Commission New High-Speed Camera on the Very Large Telescope
With ESO PR Photos 19a-b/05.
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ESO 16/05 (7 June 2005) - Press Release
ESO Receives Computerworld Honors Program 21st Century Achievement Award in Science Category
With ESO PR Photo 18/05.
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ESO 15/05 (30 May 2005) - Press Release
Preparing for the Impact - ESO Telescopes Take Snapshot of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 in Readiness for Major Observation Campaign
With ESO PR Photo 17/05.
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ESO 14/05 (16 May 2005) - Press Release
Dutch Minister of Science Visits ESO Facilities in Chile
With ESO PR Photos 16a-e/05.
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ESO 13/05 (30 April 2005) - Press Release
Catherine Cesarsky Elected Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
With ESO PR Photo 15/05.
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ESO 12/05 (30 April 2005) - Press Release
Yes, it is the Image of an Exoplanet - Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System
With ESO PR Photos 14a-d/05 and ESO Video Clip 02/05.
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ESO 11/05 (27 April 2005) - Press Release
Thousand Papers and Counting - ESO's Very Large Telescope Passes the 1000 Refereed Publications Mark
With ESO PR Photo 13/05.
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ESO 12a-e/05 (22 April 2005) - Press Photos
The Blob, the Very Rare Massive Star and the Two Populations - Striking Image of Nebula N214C taken with ESO's NTT at La Silla
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ESO 10/05 (20 April 2005) - Press Release
"Towards a Europe of Knowledge and Innovation", the EIROforum paper on science policy
With ESO PR Photo 11/05.
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ESO 09/05 (7 April 2005) - Press Release
Is this a Brown Dwarf or an Exoplanet? - New Young Sub-stellar Companion Imaged with the VLT
With ESO PR Photos 10a-c/05.
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ESO 08/05 (22 March 2005) - Press Release
Young and Exotic Stellar Zoo - ESO's Telescopes Uncover Super Star Cluster in the Milky Way
With ESO PR Photos 09a-b/05.
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ESO 07/05 (15 March 2005) - Press Release
A Tale of Two Populations - VLT FLAMES Finds Hints of Helium-Richest Stars Ever Seen
With ESO PR Photos 08a-d/05.
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ESO 06/05 (14 March 2005) - Press Release
VLTI First Fringes with Two Auxiliary Telescopes at Paranal - World's Largest Interferometer with Moving Optical Telescopes on Track
With ESO PR Photos 07a-e/05 and ESO Video Clip 01/05.
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ESO 05/05 (3 March 2005) - Press Release
Undercover Stars Among Exoplanet Candidates - Very Large Telescope Finds Planet-Sized Transiting Star
With ESO PR Photos 06a-c/05.
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ESO 04/05 (2 March 2005) - Press Release
Surprise Discovery of Highly Developed Structure in the Young Universe - ESO-VLT and ESA XMM-Newton Together Discover Earliest Massive Cluster of Galaxies Known
With ESO PR Photos 05a-b/05.
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ESO 04/05 (24 February 2005) - Press Photo
Another Look at an Enigmatic New World - VLT NACO Performs Outstanding Observations of Titan's Atmosphere and Surface
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ESO 03/05 (21 February 2005) - Press Release
ESO's Two Observatories Merge
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ESO 02/05 (19 January 2005) - Press Release
Weighing the Smallest Stars - VLT Finds Young, Very Low Mass Objects Are Twice As Heavy As Predicted.
With ESO PR Photo 03/05.
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ESO 01/05 (13 January 2005) - Press Release
Rebuilding Spiral Galaxies - Major Observing Programme Leads to New Theory of Galaxy Formation.
With ESO PR Photos 02a-b/05.
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ESO 01/05 (12 January 2005) - Press Photo
ESO PR Highlights in 2004