ESO — Pinpointing Gaia to Map the Milky Way — Organisation Release eso1908

ESO — Reaching New Heights in Astronomy Subscription preferences | Unsubscribe | View in browser European Southern Observatory ESO News 2 May 2019 2 May 2019 — ESO Organisation Release eso1908 Pinpointing Gaia to Map the Milky Way— ESO's VST helps determine the spacecraft's orbit to enable the most accurate map ever of more than a billion stars This image, a composite of several observations captured by ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST), shows the ESA spacecraft Gaia as a faint trail of dots across the lower half of the star-filled field of view. These observations were taken as part of an ongoing collaborative effort to measure Gaia's orbit and improve the accuracy of its unprecedented star map. The release, images and videos are available on: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1908/ Kind regards, The ESO Department of Communication 2 May 2019   ESO Announcements Chilean Senate awards medals to ALMA for contribution to first image of black hole 30 April 2019: On 17 April 2019, the Senate of Chile awarded the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) a medal for its instrumental role in capturing the first-ever image of a black ... Read more 2019 Olivier Chesneau Prize Awarded to Jozua de Boer 29 April 2019: The 2019 Olivier Chesneau Prize has been awarded to Jozua de Boer, for his PhD thesis entitled "High-contrast Imaging of Protoplanetary Disks". He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden ... Read more   ESOblog The first rung on the cosmic distance ladder — Predicting the future of the Universe by measuring the distance to our closest galactic neighbour Interview with: Grzegorz Pietrzynski 26 April 2019: In the most accurate measurement to any galaxy ever, a team of scientists recently calculated the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud to an incredible precision of 1%. This research ... Read more Behind the black hole — Stories from those working behind the scenes on the biggest discovery of the year Sera Markoff, Heino Falcke, Sara Issaoun 19 April 2019: Imaging a black hole is no easy task. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project involved over 200 scientists from around the world, and without their hard work, dedication, and imagination, ... Read more Share this newsletter on:     Start receiving this newsletter in your language  Pictures of the Week 29 April 2019 Starbursts and slow burns 22 April 2019 Blood Red 15 April 2019 A Twilight Tour of Paranal Upcoming Events Ongoing Café & Kosmos in Munich 24 - 29 June 2019: Starmus V 2 July 2019: Total Solar Eclipse              ESO Pictures of the Week You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to ESO News. Subscription preferences | Unsubscribe | View in browser Follow us on: European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str 2, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany