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ESO - The European Southern Observatory Homepage
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What is ESO
ESO is the intergovernmental European research organisation for Astronomy in the Southern Hemisphere. It is supported by Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. More countries are expected to join during the next years.
ESO operates the La Silla Paranal Observatory. At the Paranal site it runs the world's prime optical/infrared astronomical facility, the Very Large Telescope Array (VLT). Located 130 km south of Antofagasta, this 2,600 m high mountain is in the driest part of the Atacama desert. The VLT consists of four 8.2-meter and four 1.8-meter telescopes. Several of the telescopes can be used in combination as a unique, giant interferometer (Very Large Telescope Interferometer, VLTI). In addition, ESO operates the La Silla site, 600 km north of Santiago de Chile, at 2,400 m altitude where state-of-the-art medium-sized telescopes are in operation. More than 1500 proposals are made each year for the use of the ESO telescopes.
The ESO Headquarters are located in Garching, near Munich, Germany. This is the scientific, technical and administrative centre of ESO where technical development programmes are carried out to provide the Observatory with the most advanced instruments. There are also extensive astronomical data facilities. The ESO Headquarters also houses the joint ESO/ESA European Coordination Facility for the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Address
- Karl Schwarzschild Str. 2
- Garching, 85748 Germany
Contact
- European Southern Observatory
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- +49 89 32006 325, Fax: +49 89 3202 380
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