Resources by European Southern Observatory
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About the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
This video describes the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world’s most productive astronomical observatory. ESO operates three unique world-class observing sites in Chile: La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. At Paranal, ESO operates the...
Atacama Pathfinder Experiment Telescope (APEX)
Produced in 2005 by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), this video first looks at the Big Bang and evolution of the Universe. It then goes on to show how the ESO are developing an observatory in Chile. The APEX programme is a pathfinder for ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array. This mission...
Black hole in the Milky Way
In this video from the European Southern Observatory, we go to the centre of the Milky Way to investigate a supermassive black hole. Two scientists describe a 16-year long study, which used several of ESO’s flagship telescopes, to produce the most detailed view ever of the surroundings of the monster lurking at...
Day in the life of an ESO astronomer
Produced by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), this video shows what it is like to be an astronomer. In this video, we go behind the scenes at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile to illustrate what a day in the life of an ESO staff astronomer is like.
Further videos are available from the ESO...
ESO La Silla Observatory
Produced by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), this short video shows the observatory and work done at La Silla, Chile.
ESO’s La Silla Observatory celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2009. When it began...
The creation of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in 1962 was the culmination of the dream of leading astronomers from five European countries. Over the years, as more member states joined, ESO constructed the...
This collection contains videos produced by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to illustrate galaxies, nebulae, astronomy and cosmology. The ESO is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world's most productive astronomical observatory. ESO provides state-of-the-art research...
First Exoplanet
From the European Southern Observatory (ESO), this video describes how an exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our galaxy, the Milky Way, from another galaxy has been detected. A team of astronomers observed the exoplanet using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The Jupiter-...
The ESA/ESO Astronomy exercise series (measuring distances in the Universe)
The object of this resource, produced by ESA and ESO, is to present various small projects that will pass on some of the excitement and satisfaction in scientific discovery, to students. Using elementary geometrical and physical considerations, students will be able to derive answers that are comparable with the...
The Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula reveals many of its hidden secrets in the dramatic images taken by the European Southern Observatory's VISTA survey telescope. This video showcases some of them and describes some of the processes occurring in the Orion nebula. VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is...