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ESO | Earth Space Offensive | |
ESO | Ecological Services Outsourcing | |
ESO | Economics Student Organization | |
ESO | ECORD Science Operator | |
ESO | Edge Slot Orient | |
ESO | Educación Secundaria Obligatoria | |
ESO | Elder Scrolls Online | |
ESO | Elders Scrolls Online | |
ESO | Electrical Stick Out | |
ESO | Elgin Symphony Orchestra | |
ESO | Embarkation Staff Officer | |
ESO | Embolic Signal Onset | |
ESO | Emergency Support Office | |
ESO | Employee Stock Option | |
ESO | Employee stock options | |
ESO | Employment Services and Operations | |
ESO | Employment Services Operations | |
ESO | Engine Shut Off | |
ESO | Engineering Services Outsourcing | |
ESO | Engineering Sign Off | |
ESO | English Study Online | |
ESO | Ensemble Studios On-line | |
ESO | enseñanza secundaria obligatoria | |
ESO | Entomological Society of Ontario | |
ESO | Entrepreneur Support Organization | |
ESO | Environmental Science Officer | |
ESO | Environmental Sciences Organization | |
ESO | Environmental Student Organization | |
ESO | Environmentally Sustainable Objects | |
ESO | Epe Special | |
ESO | Epsilon Sigma Omicron | |
ESO | Equation Set Object | |
ESO | Equipment Smarter Operator | |
ESO | Equipment Superior To Operator | |
ESO | Erin Street Orphans | |
ESO | Escuela Secundaria Obligatoria | |
ESO | ESDIS Standards Office | |
ESO | Esotericism Secret Theory | |
ESO | Espanola, New Mexico | |
ESO | essentially surjective on | |
ESO | Estimated Sign Off | |
ESO | Ether Saga Odyssey | |
ESO | European School of Oncology | |
ESO | European School Oncology Regional » European -- and more... | |
ESO | European Semester Officer | |
ESO | European Southern Observatory | |
ESO | European Sport Option | |
ESO | European Standardization Organization | |
ESO | European Standardization Organizations | |
ESO | European Standards Organization | |
ESO | Event Sequence Override | |
ESO | Evolutionary Structural Optimization | |
ESO | Excel Sports Officiating | |
ESO | Expanding Sociability Oppor | |
ESO | External Security Organisation |
What does ESO mean?
- Eso
- The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, commonly referred to as the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is an intergovernmental research organisation made up of 16 member states for ground-based astronomy. Created in 1962, ESO has provided astronomers with state-of-the-art research facilities and access to the southern sky. The organisation employs over 750 staff members and receives annual member state contributions of approximately €162 million. Its observatories are located in northern Chile. ESO has built and operated some of the largest and most technologically advanced telescopes. These include the 3.6 m New Technology Telescope, an early pioneer in the use of active optics, and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), which consists of four individual 8.2 m telescopes and four smaller auxiliary telescopes which can all work together or separately. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array observes the universe in the millimetre and submillimetre wavelength ranges, and is the world's largest ground-based astronomy project to date. It was completed in March 2013 in an international collaboration by Europe (represented by ESO), North America, East Asia and Chile.Currently under construction is the Extremely Large Telescope. It will use a 39.3-metre-diameter segmented mirror, and become the world's largest optical reflecting telescope when operational towards the end of this decade. Its light-gathering power will allow detailed studies of planets around other stars, the first objects in the universe, supermassive black holes, and the nature and distribution of the dark matter and dark energy which dominate the universe. ESO's observing facilities have made astronomical discoveries and produced several astronomical catalogues. Its findings include the discovery of the most distant gamma-ray burst and evidence for a black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. In 2004, the VLT allowed astronomers to obtain the first picture of an extrasolar planet (2M1207b) orbiting a brown dwarf 173 light-years away. The High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument installed on the older ESO 3.6 m telescope led to the discovery of extrasolar planets, including Gliese 581c—one of the smallest planets seen outside the Solar System.
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