How to Protect Telescopes from Earthquakes | European Southern Observatory FriendsofNASA.org: Chile's Atacama Desert is among the darkest skies on Earth, but it is also a seismically active area. How does the European Southern Observatory protect its large and sophisticated telescopes against earthquakes? Follow European Southern Observatory astronomer Suzanna Randall in this episode of Chasing Starlight, where she travels to Chile to show us the clever anti-seismic technology that keeps our tel

On. Oct. 5, 1962, the European Southern Observatory was born! Discover space history 👉 https://trib.al/SuDn2Jy The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental research organization made up of 16 nations that work together to study the southern sky. Before ESO, all the major ground-based telescopes in the world were in the northern hemisphere. So ESO built some really big and really awesome telescopes in Chile. With these telescopes, scientists have discovered exoplanets like Pro

Cooling the "largest astronomical instruments ever" | European Southern Observatory FriendsofNASA.org: The light gathered by European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be captured by house-sized instruments that need to be cooled down to detect faint signals from the cosmos. How do we cool these huge systems to as low as -270 ºC? Our engineers are hard at work at it. Learn more more about the European Southern Observatory’s ELT at: https://elt.eso.org/ Video Credit: Eur

Happy Holidays from The European Southern Observatory! FriendsofNASA.org: As the Year 2024 comes to an end, we want to send you astronomically good wishes for the holidays and the best for the upcoming new year! Spectacular images of stars inside and outside our galaxy, new insights into black holes, new exoplanets . . . 2024 was full of amazing discoveries. In the past year, the European Southern Observatory’s largest project, the Extremely Large Telescope, surpassed 60% of its total completion