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European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (L–R): ESO logo; Map of member states Abbreviation ESO Formation 1962 ; 63 years ago (1962) Type Intergovernmental organisation Purpose astronomy Research organisation Headquarters Garching, Germany Membership 16 Official language English, French, German Director General Xavier Barcons Website www.eso.org Trailer of ...
VISTA is the Visible & Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, a 4.0-metre telescope with a wide field of view, focusing on infrared surveys of the sky. It was built close to ESO's VLT by a consortium of 18 universities from the United Kingdom, led by Queen Mary University of London. VISTA was handed over to the European Southern Observatory ...
The VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a wide-field reflecting telescope with a 4.1 metre mirror, located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.It is operated by the European Southern Observatory and started science operations in December 2009.
The ESO Supernova Planetarum & Visitor Centre is located at the Science Campus Garching. The campus is home to the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich and the Technical University of Munich, in addition to more than 80 independent scientific institutions and international science companies, 6 000 staff members and 14 000 students.
The VST dome among VLT's telescopes. It is located in the background between two of the VLT auxiliary telescopes (small round enclosures). The VST is an alt-azimuthal wide-field survey telescope with a primary mirror diameter of 2.65 meters that was constructed from 2007 to 2011 at the ESO Cerro Paranal Observatory, in Chile.
The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) is a digitized version of several photographic astronomical surveys of the night sky, produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute between 1983 and 2006. Versions and source material
Here’s how he redrew the map of the world. He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32 ...
The Hamburg/ESO Survey is an astrometric star catalogue published by the University of Hamburg. The catalog contains stars between magnitudes 13 and 18 covering the Southern extragalactic sky. The stated goals of the catalog [ 1 ] are