ESO's ruling body is its Council, which delegates day to day responsibility to the Executive under ESO's Director General. Other governing bodies of ESO are: the Finance Committee (FC), the Scientific ...

HARPS, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher at the ESO La Silla 3.6m telescope is dedicated to the discovery of extrasolar planets. It is a fibre-fed high resolution echelle spectrograph.

The ESO Science Newsletter is intended to keep the community informed about current activities of interest at ESO. The newsletter appears roughly every two to three months or whenever important news ...

The staff at the ESO ARC provide support to the European users and to the science operations of the ALMA observatory. User support is provided together with the staff in the nodes within the European ...

The telescope structure is an alt-az mount (see Figure 1) and it is divided into two main parts: the Azimuth Structure and the Altitude Structure. The main structure, including the hosted units and ...

ESO Science Day is organised at regular intervals both in Garching and in Chile. Its purpose is to provide an opportunity for all ESO astronomers in their duty station to get to know each other better ...

E-ELT PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION Project documents E-ELT Top Level Requirements Observatory Instruments ELT-CAM (now MICADO) ELT-IFU (now HARMONI) ELT-MIDIR (now METIS) ELT-HIRES (now ANDES) ...

During the commissioning runs of GRAVITY at the VLTI between 2015 and 2018, selected astronomical targets were observed to demonstrate the capabilities of the instrument, find the best observing ...

Revealing hidden stars and galaxies: new MOONS instrument at the Very Large Telescope makes first observations ...

Several teams provide support in regard to ESO's telescopes and instruments, e.g. support for observing proposal preparation and submission, observation scheduling, data flow operation, information ...

We list on this page the topics offered by ESO Faculty astronomers to the students interested in the ESO Studentship programme. The deadline to apply for the ESO Studentship is April 20th and October ...