ESOcast is a video podcast series dedicated to bringing you the latest news and research from ESO, the European Southern Observatory. Here we explore the Universe's ultimate frontier.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 15 hours 50 minutes
ESOcast 128: Why Astronomers Want to Use ALMA - ALMA Observes the Invisible
ESOcast 128 describes how astronomers look at the Universe and why astronomers need ALMA, the largest ground-based facility for observing radio waves, in order to understand phenomena in some of the dustiest and most distant regions of our Universe.
ESOcast 125: Q&A with ESO's Incoming Director General Xavier Barcons — Taking up duty at ESO
ESO’s new Director General, Xavier Barcons, gives his perspective on ESO, astronomy, and his new position.
ESOcast 124: Q&A with ESO's Outgoing Director General Tim de Zeeuw — Thoughts and reflections on a decade at ESO
In ESOcast 124 ESO’s outgoing Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, gives us his thoughts and reflections on a decade at ESO.
ESOcast 126 Light: Titanium oxide in exoplanetary atmosphere (4K UHD)
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have detected titanium oxide in an exoplanet atmosphere for the first time. This discovery around the hot-Jupiter planet WASP-19b exploited the power of the FORS2 instrument. It provides unique information
ESOcast 123 Light: Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere (4K UHD)
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer astronomers have constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the first map of the velocities of material the atmosphere of a star other than
ESOcast 122 Light: Supermassive Black Holes Feed on Cosmic Jellyfish (4K UHD)
Observations of “Jellyfish galaxies” with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. It seems the mechanism that produces the tentacles of gas and newborn stars that give these galaxies their n
ESOcast 121 Light: Star orbiting supermassive black hole suggests Einstein is right (4K UHD)
A new analysis of data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other telescopes suggests that the orbits of stars around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way show the subtle effects predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativi
ESOcast 120: Chile Chill 10 – “VLT Main Mirror Recoating”
This video takes a relaxed look at a tense process — cleaning and recoating the surface of one of the ESO Very Large Telescope’s 8.2-metre main mirrors.
ESOcast 119: AOF First Light
ESO’s new Adaptive Optics Facility has just opened its eyes to the sky for the first time. Coupled with the revolutionary instrument MUSE, this is one of the most advanced and powerful technological systems ever built for ground-based astronomy.