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 80: Follow a Live Planet Hunt
And a unique new project will now allow members of the public to go behind the scenes and follow a planet hunt as it happens!
ESOcast 79: 20 Years of Exoplanets
Not a single confirmed planet outside the Solar System had been detected before the year 1990. But, remarkably, we now know of thousands and have studied many in surprising detail.
ESOcast 78: Airglow
ESO’s La Silla Observatory on a moonless night, deep in the Atacama Desert of Chile. It should be very dark -- but strange green and red colours can be seen to shimmer in the sky. What are these mysterious glows? And why do they seem to be getti
ESOcast 77: Mysterious Ripples Found Racing Through Planet-forming Disc
Images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed unique and totally unexpected structures in the dusty disc around the star AU Microscopii. These fast-moving wave-like dust features are unlike anything ever
ESOcast 76: A Polarised View of Stellar Magnetism
ESO telescopes are being used to search for the subtle signs of magnetic fields in other stars and even to map out the star spots on their surfaces. This information is beginning to reveal how and why so many stars, including our own Sun, are magneti
ESOcast 75: ESO’s Top 10 Discoveries
Astronomers using ESO facilities have been advancing astronomical studies for decades. Along the way, there have been many truly significant findings that have had a major impact on our understanding of the Universe.