EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY (ESO)

This video starts by showing an animation of comet C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS), which was done using real images taken by the SPECULOOS telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. The video then zooms in on a blue comet. In a new study done with the UVES instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team has spotted heavy metal atoms in the inner atmosphere of the comet, a discovery illustrated at the end of the video. There we see the spectrum of the comet and in particular the iron (Fe, blue) and nickel (Ni, orange) lines, marking the presence of the two elements in the atmosphere of the comet. More information and download options: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2108a/ Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, SPECULOOS Team/E. Jehin, Manfroid et al.

This animation shows an artist’s view of what the surface of the comet might look like.With sizes ranging from a few hundred metres to some kilometers, comets are relatively small rocky and icy objects. The cloud around the comet, its atmosphere or coma, emerges when the comet approaches the Sun in its journey across the Solar System. As the comet heats up, dust and materials from the surface of its nucleus sublimate, forming a sort of very thin atmosphere. More information and download options: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2108b/ Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

This Video Jockey-ing (VJ) clip provides a visual feast of colour and design, taking you on a fast-paced journey flying backwards through a virtual wormhole in spacetime. It can be used to enrich the audience’s experience at music events held in planetariums, such as the the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre. The video is available for download and can also be used for VJ-ing. It is a fulldome conversion of material from Beeple, an online source of video clips provided by Mike Winkelmann. More information and download options: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/wormhole/ Credit: Mike Winkelmann/ESO

This artist's animation shows an asteroid approaching Earth and passing by it. As it gets closer to our planet, the locations of the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Test-Bed Telescope 1, in Spain, and Test-Bed Telescope 2 at ESO’s La Silla Observatory become visible. The two telescopes will keep a close eye on the sky for asteroids that could pose a risk to Earth, working together to test hardware and software for a future telescope network, ESA’s Flyeye. More information and download options: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2107c/ Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser

Part of the world-wide effort to scan and identify potentially dangerous asteroids and other near-Earth objects, asteroid hunter Test-Bed Telescope 2 (TBT2), a European Space Agency telescope hosted at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, has now started operating. The video is available in 4K UHD. The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The ESOcast Light episodes will not be replacing the standard, longer ESOcasts, but complement them with current astronomy news and images in ESO press releases. More information and download options: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2107a/ Subscribe to ESOcast in iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/esocast-hd/id295471183?mt=2 Receive future episodes on YouTube by pressing the Subscribe button above or follow us on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/esoastronomy Watch more ESOcast episodes: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/archive/category/esocast/ Find out how to view and contribute subtitles for the ESOcast in multiple languages, or translate this video on YouTube: https://www.eso.org/public/outreach/partnerships/translators/ Credit: ESO Directed by: Herbert Zodet and Martin Wallner. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Thea Elvin, Anna Purdue and Bárbara Ferreira. Music: Stellardrone — Mars and Jennifer Athena Galatis — Cyberpunk City. Footage and photos: ESO, F. Ocaña/J. Isabel/Quasar SR, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, B. Tafreshi (twanight.org), M. Zamani , Aleksandr Ivanov, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cutout of video) and VOA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Scientific consultants: Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova.

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English tour, April 24th, 2021.

Visita en español al observatorio la Silla de la ESO

English tour, April 10th, 2021.

Virtual guided tour to ESO La Silla Observatory

Tour en español, sábado 3 de abril 2021, 11:00 h.

Visita virtual guiada Observartorio La Silla de ESO

English Tour, Saturday 27th March, 2021

New observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and most recently detected interstellar visitor to our Solar System, is one of the most pristine ever observed. This video summarises new findings on this mysterious alien visitor. More information and download options: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2106a/ Credit: ESO Directed by: Herbert Zodet. Editing : Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Thea Elvin, Anna Purdue and Bárbara Ferreira. Music: STAN DART (www.stan-dart.com) – Reflections. Footage and photos: ESO, O. Hainaut, E. Slawik, M. Kornmesser, ESA/Space Engine (spaceengine.org)/L. Calçada, Petr Horálek, Daniele Gasparri (www.astroatacama.com) and C. Malin (christophmalin.com). Scientific consultants: Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova.

Take a flight over Paranal in the Atacama Desert, home to ESO's Very Large Telescope, in this excerpt from Europe to the Stars. The full video takes the viewer on an epic journey behind the scenes at the most productive ground-based observatory in the world, revealing the science, the history, the technology and the people. Credit: ESO

Flight over Chile to the La Silla Observatory, to the Very Large Telescope, to the site of ALMA and to the ESO Headquarters in Garching, Munich. Made with Google Earth. Note that ESO's standard Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license does not apply to the Google Earth part of this video. Credit: ESO https://www.eso.org/public/videos/about-eso-esofly-2021/

This animation shows a trip from Europe to the La Silla Observatory in Chile, South America, with a satellite view of the Earth and the space beyond. Credit: ESO https://www.eso.org/public/videos/la-silla-flight-flat/

This animation shows the orbit (in red) of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, which was the second and most recently detected interstellar object to visit our Solar System. Credit: ESA/spaceengine.org/L. Calçada. Music: Johan B. Monell https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2106b/

This video shows an artist’s view of what the surface of the comet might look like. 2I/Borisov was a visitor from another planetary system that passed by our Sun in 2019, allowing astronomers a unique view of an interstellar comet. While telescopes on Earth and in space captured images of this comet, we don’t have any close-up observations of 2I/Borisov. It is therefore up to artists to create their own ideas of what the comet’s surface might look like, based on the scientific information we have about it. Credit: ESO/M. Kormesser https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2106c/

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has today revealed a new view of the massive object at the centre of the Messier 87 galaxy: how it looks in polarised light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarisation, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. This video summarises the discovery. More information and download options: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2105a/ Credits: ESO Directed by: Herbert Zodet. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Anna Purdue, Thea Elvin and Bárbara Ferreira. Music: STAN DART (www.stan-dart.com) — Xmas Special. Footage and photos: ESO, EHT Collaboration, L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, ESA/Hubble, RadioAstron, De Gasperin et al., Kim et al., M. Kornmesser, C. Malin (christophmalin.com) and B. Tafreshi (twanight.org). Scientific consultants:Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova.