On 1 April 2007 CCLRC merged with PPARC to form the Science and Technology Facilities Council so that a single organisation was responsible for providing UK scientists with access to large scientific facilities in the UK and elsewhere in the world, including CERN, ESA and ESO.

* Swiss delegate to the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) Council, 2003 – 2007

VISTA was conceived and developed by a consortium of universities in the United Kingdom led by Queen Mary, University of London and became an in-kind contribution to ESO as part of the UK's accession agreement, with the subscription paid by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council ( STFC ).

The consortium then completed the construction and commissioning of the telescope, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council – on behalf of the UK – handed over the telescope to ESO, for the benefit of astronomers in all its member countries.

The program reaches its apex with the installation of the SEST in 1987 ( Swedish ESO Submillimetre Telescope ), the only large submillimetre telescope in the southern hemisphere, which was a combined project between ESO and the Swedish Natural Science Research Council.

On 11 June 2012, the ESO Council approved The E-ELT programme to begin construction of the telescope, pending agreement with the governments of some member states.

The ESO Council during their meeting in Garching on 11 – 12 June 2012.

On 26 April 2010, the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) Council selected Cerro Armazones, Chile, as the baseline site for the planned E-ELT.

" The ESO Council endorsed the revised baseline design in June 2011 and expected a construction proposal for approval in December 2011.

* An Elegant Galaxy in an Unusual Light — ESO press release

Picture by European Southern Observatory | ESO

During that time he also held the position of Director General of the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) ( 1993 – 1999 ).

The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope ( OWL ) was a conceptual design by the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) organization for an extremely large telescope, which was intended to have a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter.

Because of the complexity and cost of building a telescope of this unprecedented size, ESO has elected to focus on the 39-meter diameter European Extremely Large Telescope instead.

However, the projected cost ( of around € 1. 5 billion ) was uncomfortably high, and the ESO is now working on a smaller European Extremely Large Telescope around 39 m in diameter.

The European Southern Observatory ( ESO ; formally the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere.

Currently on-going ESO projects include the Atacama Large Millimeter Array ( ALMA ) and the European Extremely Large Telescope ( E-ELT ).

ESO has been working together with its user community of European astronomers and astrophysicists to define this new giant telescope since the end of 2005.

VirGO is a Stellarium plugin, a visual browser for the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) Science Archive Facility that allows astronomers to browse professional astronomical data.

European Southern Observatory | ESO image.

" He studied briefly at the University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy and spent sabbatical semesters at the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) in Chile and at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii.

In 2003, his latest planet searching instrument, the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher ( HARPS ), came online at the European Southern Observatory ( ESO )' s telescope at La Silla, Chile, allowing for more precise measurements of radial velocities.

This bilobate shape was revealed by adaptive optics on the ESO 3. 6 m Telescope at La Silla, run by the European Southern Observatory.

* Headquarters of the European Southern Observatory ( ESO )

* European Southern Observatory ( ESO )

Vitacura is see of ECLAC headquarters, home to the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) headquarters in Chile, and home to Santiago's most exclusive shopping street, Avenida Alonso de Córdova.

European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) and the European Association for Astronomy Education ( EAAE ) launched the VT-2004 project, together with the Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides ( IMCCE ) and the Observatoire de Paris in France, as well as the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

The VST program is a cooperation between the Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte ( OAC ), Naples, Italy, and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) that began in 1997.

After considering several sites in Chile, the consortium chose the Paranal Observatory of the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ), namely a secondary peak 1, 500 m from the Very Large Telescope ( VLT ).

This technology, developed by ESO, known as active optics, is now applied to all major modern telescopes, such as the Very Large Telescope at Cerro Paranal and the future European Extremely Large Telescope.

The ESO 3. 6 m Telescope is an optical reflecting telescope run by the European Southern Observatory at La Silla Observatory, Chile since 1977, with a clear aperture of about 3. 6 meters ( 140 in.

The team used the HARPS instrument ( an echelle spectrograph ) on the European Southern Observatory ESO 3. 6 m Telescope in La Silla, Chile, and employed the radial velocity technique to identify the planet's influence on the star.

The European Extremely Large Telescope ( E-ELT ) is a planned ground-based extremely large telescope for the optical / near-infrared range, to be built by the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) on a mountain top in Cerro Armazones, Chile.

* ESO European Extremely Large Telescope

Image: Image from ESO ’ s La Silla Observatory of part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. jpg | Image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG / ESO 2. 2-metre telescope at ESO ’ s La Silla Observatory in Chile.

Four large antennas for the ESO / NAOJ / NRAO Atacama Large Millimeter Array | ALMA thrust to the sky at the Operations Support Facility ( OSF ).

First 7-metre ESO / NAOJ / NRAO Atacama Large Millimeter Array | ALMA Antenna.

On September 24, 2008, ESO announced what it ascertained was the first optically active magnetar-candidate yet discovered, using ESO's Very Large Telescope.

Image: ESO M83. jpg | Image taken in the infrared part of the spectrum with the HAWK-I instrument on ESO ’ s Very Large Telescope.

First released Very Large Telescope | VLT Survey Telescope image shows the star-forming region Messier 17. Credit ESO.

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer ( MUSE ) is a second generation instrument in development for the Very Large Telescope ( VLT ) of the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ).

The ESO focused on the current design after a feasibility study concluded the proposed diameter Overwhelmingly Large Telescope would cost € 1. 5 billion (£ 1 billion ), and be too complex.

* Doressoundiram, A .; Barucci, M. A .; Tozzi, G. P .; Poulet, F .; Boehnhardt, H .; de Bergh, C .; Peixinho, N. Spectral characteristics and modeling of the trans-neptunian object ( 55565 ) 2002 AW197 and the Centaurs ( 55576 ) 2002 GB10 and ( 83982 ) 2002 GO9: ESO Large Program on TNOs and Centaurs.