ESO #Flashback : This is Gum 41, a cloud of hydrogen and newborn stars imaged with the MPG/ESO 2.2 m telescope. The bright hot young stars emit energetic radiation that causes the surrounding hydrogen to glow with a characteristic red hue.
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Credit: ESO

Our latest Picture of the Week features a pinwheel firework: the grand design spiral galaxy NGC 4254, also known as the Coma Pinwheel or Messier 99, that has a distinctive pinwheel shape with prominent arms.
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Credit: ESO /PHANGS

Gorgeous comparison! 🤩 As Mark explains further down, the radiation from those hot bright stars in the top-right erodes the surrounding material. Denser areas withstand that better, resulting in those pillars pointing towards the stars.

#ESOjobs Students are invited to apply for the #ESOStudentship programme Europe and Chile 2022/2023.

Deadline 30.11.2022.

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Credit: G. Ávila/ ESO

#ESOjobs Calling all students to apply for the #ESOStudentship programme Europe and Chile 2022/2023.

Deadline 30.11.2022.

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Credit: ESO / F. Kamphues

ESO #Flashback : Located in the direction of the constellation Dorado in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the resplendent object known as NGC 2060 is the aftermath of a supernova.

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Credit: ESO

In today's Picture of the Week, the UT4 telescope at our VLT in Chile fires its lasers up to the sky. They excite sodium atoms 90 km from the ground, creating artificial stars that we use to measure and correct turbulence.

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Credit: Zdenek Bardon/ ESO

#ESOjobs We are looking for an Optics Engineer in Paranal for the Optics Group, responsible for the main optical systems at the Paranal Observatory (and as support for the La Silla Observatory). Extended deadline: 28.10.2022

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ESO / Babak Tafreshi

#ESOCastLight Astronomers have discovered the heaviest element yet in an exoplanet atmosphere. They found barium, which is 2.5 heavier than iron #BiteSizedAstronomy #4K #UHD

8. Future instruments such as #ANDES on our upcoming Extremely Large Telescope #ELT will study the atmospheres of exoplanets large & small, including of rocky planets similar to Earth, in much greater depth and gather more clues as to the nature of these strange worlds.

#ESOjobs We are looking for a software engineer in Garching to join our Data Flow Infrastructure (DFI) group in the Science Operations Software department of the Directorate of Engineering.

Deadline 26.10.2022.

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