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• Rare 360-degree Panorama of the Southern Sky

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 597
  The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image was made from 37 individual frames with a total exposure time of about 30 minutes, taken in the early morning hours. The Moon is just rising and the zodiacal light [...]
  1 day ago

• ESO Discovers New Cluster of Galaxies in Images

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 133
  The European Southern Observatory (ESO) released images earlier this week of a newly discovered cluster of galaxies estimated to be roughly seven billion light years distant. The discovery was made possible by combining data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Subaru Telescope, operated by the National ...
  4 days ago

• Eso Of Bliss N Eso Gives Chewing Tobacco A Try

  
  rapdirt.com — Authority: 130
  Carey Hart messed with Eso of Bliss N Eso, giving the Australian hip hop artist Skoal chewing tobacco for the first time. Watch his reaction below.
  6 days ago

• Shedding Light on the Cosmic Skeleton

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 597
  Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us. The discovery, made possible by combining two of the most powerful ground-based telescopes in the world, is the first observation of such a prominent galaxy structure in the distant ...
  1 week ago

• ESO Releases Latest Images of Jewel Box Cluster

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 133
  Yesterday, the European Southern Observatory (ESO), released the most recent composite images of a cluster known as the Jewel Box Cluster. Also known as NGC 4755, the images released utilized images from two of ESO’s telescope merged with images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 4755 is estimated to be 6400 ...
  1 week ago

• The Jewel Box

  
  Tom's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 128
  The Jewel Box, NGC 4755 from the ESO. Wallpaper links below. Credit the ESO. The Jewel Box is another name for the open cluster NGC 4755 . From the looks of this ESO image, it’s little wonder how English astronomer John Hershel came up with the name when he coined it in the 1830’s. NGC 4755 is an open ...
  1 week ago

• Canon EOS T1i Review

  
  Best digital camera review — Authority: 147
  I love photography and bought myself a Canon EOS XSi (450D) last year from amazon.fr. How I wished I had waited as Canon are on the brink of launching their brand new successor to it, the Canon EOS T1i (500D), which is out very soon (early May 2009). The XSi is a fantastic camera for the price and really builds the ...
  1 week ago

• Picture of the Day – Putting the Jewel Box in perspective

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 597
  This composite image serves as a still “zoom-in”, showing the rich star field in which NGC 4755 nestles and then moving in to the detailed Hubble image of the Kappa Crucis Cluster, or Jewel Box, itself.The range of images begins with a very wide-field view of the sky surrounding NGC 4755. The images then ...
  1 week ago

• Opening up a Colourful Cosmic Jewel Box

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 597
  The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal , the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, has allowed the stunning Jewel Box star cluster to be seen in a whole new light.Star clusters are ...
  1 week ago

• 32 New Exoplanets Announced by ESO

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 133
  On Monday, 19 October 2009, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced the discovery of 32 new extrasolar planets (exoplanets). This quickly brings up the total number of exoplanets to over 400. Read more about the discoveries made by ESO astronomers online now here .
  2 weeks ago

• A Supernova Duet in NGC 1448

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 597
  Portrayed in this beautiful image is the spiral galaxy NGC 1448, with a prominent disc of young and very bright stars surrounding its small, shining core. Located about 60 million light-years away from the Sun, this galaxy has recently been a prolific factory of supernovae, the dramatic explosions that mark the death ...
  3 weeks ago

• 32 new exo-planets discovered

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 150
  Artists rendition of 6x Earth size planet orbiting Gliese 667 C, part of a triple solar system. ©ESO Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Scientists working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in La Silla northern Chile announced the discovery of 32 new planets in systems beyond our own solar system, ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Exoplanets Discovered

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 132
  The newly discovered system Gliese 667 (Artist’s impression). Image credit: ESO Astronomers using the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) spectrograph, which is attached to the 11.8 foot telescope at the European Southern Observatory ’s facility in Chile, have discovered 32 new planets ...
  3 weeks ago

• ESO Announces Discovery of 32 New Exoplanets

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 489
  An artists conception of a planet orbiting Gliese 667 C. The 6 Earth-mass exoplanet circulates around its low-mass host star at a distance equal to only 1/20th of the Earth-Sun distance. The host star is a companion to two other low-mass stars, which are seen here in the distance. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ESO PRESS ...
  3 weeks ago

• 32 New Exoplanets Discovered

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 597
  Today, at an international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope, reports on the incredible discovery of some 32 new exoplanets, cementing HARPS’s position as the world’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Planet hunt nets 32 new worlds

  
  Skymania News | Space headlines — Authority: 118
  An amazing haul of 32 new planets was revealed today. The alien worlds orbiting other stars were all discovered by a planet-hunting instrument at the European Southern Observatory 2,400 metres above sea level in Chiles Atacama desert. The device is fitted to a telescope with a giant "eye" - a mirror 3.6 metres wide ...
  3 weeks ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  Only Real Hip Hop — Authority: 117
  Bliss n Eso feat: John Butler Trio - "The Sea is Rising" - Peace One Day Video Download Track Masta Ace & EDO. G - Little Young produced by (M-Phazes) Official Video Download Track
  3 weeks ago

• Barnard’s Galaxy

  
  Tom's Astronomy Blog — Authority: 128
  NGC 6822, Barnards Galaxy from the ESO. Click for larger (~127k). Credit: ESO I’ve seen this little galaxy and I’ve tried to image it, problem is from here, Barnard’s is pretty far down on the horizon so atmospheric distortion can be a problem, still it’s a nice target.  Of course, seeing the wonderful ...
  3 weeks ago

• An Interesting Extrasolar Planet Announcement Next Week

  
  NASA Watch — Authority: 566
  ESO: Media Telecon to Discuss Significant Exoplanet Finding "On Monday 19 October 2009, astronomers will report at the international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, Portugal, on a significant discovery in the field of exoplanets, obtained with the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known ...
  3 weeks ago

• Barnard’s beauty

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 699
  The Local Group of galaxies is our Milky Way’s neighborhood: a few dozen galaxies dominated by our own, as well as Andromeda and a handful of largish ones. But by far the majority of galaxies in our group — the majority everywhere , really — are dwarfs; small collections of stars and gas with only a few ...
  4 weeks ago

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