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 118 Light: A Tale of Three Stellar Cities (4K UHD)
Surprise: astronomers have found what look like three different generations of baby stars within the Orion Nebula Cluster.
ESOcast 117 Light: Eyes Wide Open for New Exoplanet Hunter (4K UHD)
The MASCARA (Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA) station at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has achieved first light. This new facility will seek out transiting exoplanets as they pass in front of their bright parent stars and create a catalogue of target
ESOcast 116: Success or Failure: How to Get Observing Time
ESOcast 116 explores how astronomers request time to use an ESO telescope, and how ESO’s Observing Programmes Committee, embarking on its one-hundredth meeting, examines and judges these proposals in order to ensure that ESO is making the best use of
ESOcast 115 Light: Meet one of the most energetic objects in the Universe (4K UHD)
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a magnificent face-on view of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77. But there is more to this galaxy than meets the eye. This ESOcast Light takes a closer look.
ESOcast 114 Light: VLT LEGO model (4K UHD)
One of the world’s most sophisticated observatories has now been recreated as a mind-boggling LEGO® model.
ESOcast 113 Light: Live search for Planets around Proxima Centauri continues (4K UHD)
In 2016 the Pale Red Dot team discovered a planet around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun. Using ESO’s exoplanet hunter, HARPS, they are about to continue the hunt for the nearest exoplanets. See more in this episode of ESOcast Light.
ESOcast 112: Catching Starlight
Capturing and recording the light from the heavens has always been an essential aspect of astronomy. In this episode, we’re going to delve into the history of the sensors that have been used to study the Universe over the centuries.
ESOcast 110 Light: Ingredient for life found around infant stars (4K UHD)
ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block of life.