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 98 Light: A Galaxy On Edge (4K UHD)
A new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope gives a very detailed view of the edge-on galaxy NGC 1055. This ESOcast Light takes a quick look at this image and explains what it shows.
ESOcast 96: Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets
Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. Using ground and space telescopes, including ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the planets were all detected as they passed in front of their parent star, the ultracool
ESOcast 97 Light: 7 Earth-sized Worlds Found in Nearby Star System (4K UHD)
This ESOcast Light presents five amazing facts about the 7 Earth-sized planets found in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system, from their rocky composition to their potential to harbour water.
ESOcast 95 Light: How Big is a Star? (4K UHD)
It’s hard to comprehend the sheer size of objects in space , but let’s give it a try!
ESOcast 94 Light: Celestial Cat Meets Cosmic Lobster (4K UHD)
A new image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope gives a very detailed view of the star formation regions NGC 6334 and NGC 6357, often called the Cat’s Paw Nebula and the Lobster Nebula, respectively, because of their distinctive shapes. This ESOcast Ligh
ESOcast 93 Light: Kick-off for Mirrors and Sensors for Biggest Eye on the Sky (4K UHD)
ESOcast 93 Light takes a quick look at four important contracts that were placed for big parts of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) at a ceremony on 18 January 2017 in Garching. The giant telescope is moving forward!
ESOcast 92 Light: ALMA Starts Observing the Sun (4K UHD)
The ALMA telescope has been used to study the Sun for the first time. It is also the first time that an ESO facility has been used to study our nearest star.
ESOcast 91 Light: VLT to search for planets around Alpha Centauri (4K UHD)
ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation in Chile to conduct a search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri. Such planets could be the targets for an eventual launc
ESOcast 90 Light – Orion’s Cloudy Secrets (4K UHD)
This video takes a quick look at a new image of one of the coolest bits of the night sky — the Orion Nebula. By observing in infrared light the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile can see through the dust and this allowed ast
ESOcast 89: Chile Chill 8 – “A Bird’s Eye View of ESO Observatories”
Soaring through the cloudless Chilean sky might seem like something from a dream, but this ESOcast allows you to do just that. Incredible aerial photography of ESO’s facilities in Chile provides a new perspective on the world’s most productive astron