What is ESO?

We are ESO, the European Southern Observatory. For decades we have been designing, building and operating the most advanced ground-based telescopes in the world. Discover our mission, our observing sites and telescopes, our breakthroughs and our people.
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Credit:
ESO
Directed and edited by: Martin Wallner
Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Martin Wallner and Bárbara Ferreira
Consultants: Xavier Barcons, Michele Cirasuolo, Mariya Lyubenova, Roberto Tamai, Anna-Lynn Wegener
Narration: Louise Nielsen
Interviewees (alphabethically): Javier Alarcon, Xavier Barcons, Isobel Hook, Elizabeth Humphreys, Bárbara Nuñez, Louise Nielsen, Ricardo Parra, Suzanne Ramsay, Roberto Tamai, Guido Veccia, Herbert Zodet
Music: Johan B. Monell (www.johanmonell.com) - Rosetta Mission, Mylonite MRP (Mylonite Recordz Production) - Berceuse Spatiale.
Footage and photos: ESO, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), L. Calçada, J.Doornenbal, EHT Collaboration, B. Häußler, H. Heyer, G. Hüdepohl (atacamaphoto.com), F. Kamphues, M. Kornmesser, S. Lowery, C. Madsen, C. Malin (christophmalin.com), M. Nadjar, Naumann Film GmbH, J. Porte, Francisco Rodríguez, SCHOTT AG, B. Tafreshi (twanight.org), A. Tsaousis, UHD Team, Guido Vecchia, M. Wallner, M. Zamani, H. Zodet
Acknowledgements: Chepox, MPE, MPIA, NOVA, SCHOTT AG, Sener, VPHAS+ Consortium/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
Media footage:
Cover and website images: BBC, El Mercurio, El País, La Tercera, Le Monde, National Geographic, Nature, New Scientist, New York Times, Reuters, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Economist
News snippets:
24 Horas (24horas.cl), TVN, Chile
BBC News (bbc.com/news), BBC, UK
Connect the World (edition.cnn.com/shows/connect-the-world), CNN, USA
DW News (dw.com), Deutsche Welle, Germany
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Episode 467 (2018)
Guest: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Executive Producers: Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Chris Licht, Tom Purcell, Barry Julien
Production Companies: Spartina Productions, Busboy Productions, CBS Studios
Network: CBS
The Story of Oumuamua, the First Visitor From Another Star System (2018)
Speaker: Karen J. Meech
Production: TED (ted.com)
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[@mariadaluzmoutinho5701]

ESO = humanidade, o avanço...conhecimento e ciência incrivel, é uma enorme janela aberta, para exploração do belo Universo...com muitas possibilidades num infinito inumerável!! Obrigado...as vossas descobertas tem sido um admirável espanto!!

[@asb408]

I was an ESO user in the late 1990s. I observed asteroids with ESO's 1.5-m telescope at La Silla. ESO really is a fantastic place to work.I agree that ESO's scientific and technical advances over the last 60 years have changed the way we look at the universe, but who is the target audience for this video? Amateurs and professional astronomers or the general public? There are a lot of technical terms like "deformed mirrors" or the high accuracy of the ELT alignment system that I understand and appreciate as a professional astronomer, but are they important to the general public? I think that ESO's public appearance on KZbin could be reconsidered. ESO's videos are technically of a high standard in terms of quality of images, animations and sound, but they are not as exciting as many videos from small science channels on KZbin. I am not a hater. I really appreciate the work of ESO, but this thought always comes back to me when I see a video from the ESO channel.

[@ESOobservatory]

Dear @albertobetzler thank you so much for your feedback! It's so valuable for us to hear back from those who watch our videos. It's definitely a journey to make our channel more accessible and attractive, we're always striving to do better and it's always good to get feedback along the way.

[@--Snowy--]

Thank you ESO 👍

[@marc.w.7692]

Nice!

[@ndirangugichuki6260]

Tom Scott video brought me here

[@Nithincr1]

*European Southern Observatory!* Ground-based astronomy

[@singaravelank5463]

❤

[@EricMalette]

I really miss the voice of ESO.

[@Downlead]

Hari gini masih bikin teropong bintang di permukaan bumi??? Amerika sudah bikin teropong bintang di luar angkasa: Hubble & James Webb.

[@ESOobservatory]

Building telescopes on Earth enables the use of much larger mirrors at a much lower cost. For comparison, while the primary mirrors of the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes are 2.4m and 6.5m in diameter, the mirror of the ELT will be 39 metres large. Through a larger mirror it is possible to observe fainter objects and achieve better resolution - namely, the ability to distinguish fine details. Using a technique called adaptive optics we can correct atmospheric turbulence, delivering very sharp images. Also, fixing space telescopes or upgrading them with new instruments is either very costly (like Hubble) or simply not possible (like JWST, which is located way beyond the Moon). So space telescopes and ground-based ones complement each other, the former can’t replace the latter.

[@BinkyBorky]

pfft if you reach out to them in english and latin they shun you because you don't speak spanish. source: experience