🪐 This is the first ever direct image of a planet outside of our solar system: 2M1207b. Made #OTD, 20 years ago, by ESO’s #VLT. eso.org/public/news/es… But did you know it almost didn’t happen? 🧵👇1/

A regular spring evening in Santiago

We are offering a 4-year PhD contract at the Centro Astrobiología to study exoplanetary systems in K-type stars with the ESA_Plato and ESA_JWST missions as well as terrestrial instrumentation. Anyone interested, please contact us as soon as possible. +info👇

Guten Morgen ESO !

📣 Expanding Horizons: what will ESO's next programme be? ESO's ELT is just a few years away from completion, which means we are already looking towards our next innovative ground-based project ⬇️ eso.org/public/announc…

📣 ESO's VLTI takes the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy! Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, this star is roughly 2000 times larger than our Sun and is in the last stages before it becomes a supernova: eso.org/public/news/es… 📷 ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.

Meet the central tower of ESO’s #ELT! The size of a three-storey building, it will support three of the ELT’s five mirrors: M3 (at the bottom of the tower), M4 (at the top) & M5 (at the centre). More about this feat of engineering: eso.org/public/images/… 📷 ESO/F. Carrasco

Following Storm Dorothea, the Spanish Canary Islands were affected by a haze brought on by strong gusts of wind on 17 December 2024, which carried suspended dust from the Sahara Desert. This dense haze, known locally as calima, led to decreased air quality in several areas. ⤵️

This year I’m going to take real holidays. Mail closed, Teams closed and logged out and automatic reply set. See you next year! Happy holidays everyone!

Saturn observed with an 8-m telescope (taken with my phone and bad pulse) ESO #Paranal

And this is how a pro with good camera and better pulse does it: Abi Frost. Al the credits to her!

A new industrial megaproject just 7 km from Cerro Paranal risks the future of the observatory. There is no need to choose between Astronomy and other projects, both can/should coexist if they are more distant between each other. [personal opinion].

⚠️ Los cielos del desierto de Atacama –los más oscuros y claros del mundo– están en peligro por un megaproyecto industrial. AES Andes propuso ubicar un complejo industrial a pocos kilómetros de nuestro Observatorio Paranal. Esto afectaría irreparablemente las observaciones.

Segundo video, con datos incluyendo el informe elaborado por ESO Chile que les dejaré en el primer comentario ⬇️ La astronomía es eje clave para el desarrollo científico de Chile y su presencia internacional, ambos proyectos pueden coexistir, pero no como se plantea actualmente

🌌📡🔭Protección del cielo nocturno: ALMA se une a ESO Chile en la lucha contra la contaminación lumínica. 🔗almaobservatory.org/es/anuncios/pr…

🌌📡🔭 Protecting the Night Sky: ALMA Stands with ESO in the Fight Against Light Pollution. 🔗almaobservatory.org/en/announcemen…

⚫ Captan en tiempo real estructuras muy inusuales al borde de un agujero negro ✅ El #IAC participa en el estudio de una galaxia situada a 270 millones de años luz en la constelación de Draco. 🔗iac.es/es/divulgacion… #Astronomía #AgujerosNegros #Galaxias

Los cielos de Chile son un patrimonio del planeta en investigación astronómica. Miles de millones de dólares en nuevos telescopios para investigaciones de frontera que pueden cambiar el futuro de nuestro planeta. No pongamos en riesgo esto que nos hace un país único en el mundo.

The German newspaper Die Zeit covered the hand, writing: "A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute".

Bye Twitter/X, see you in bluer skies 🦋 Adiós Twitter/X, nos vemos en cielos más azules 🦋