Students of the ESO 2020 Summer Research Programme presented their research projects virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gruppenbild bei der vorläufigen Designprüfung von METIS (PDR) bei der ESO in Garching, 6.-10. Mai 2019. Weitere Informationen zu METIS finden Sie hier.

ALMA-Vorstandssitzung im November 2019.

ESO Director General, Xavier Barcons, congratulates Safron CEO Martian Sion at the inauguration ceremony of the new polishing plant for segments of the ELT Main Mirror of Safran in Poitier, France on 4 February 2020.

ESO Director General, Xavier Barcons, and CEO of Safran Electronics and Defense, Martin Sion, shake hands at the inauguration ceremony of the new polishing plant for segments of the ELT Main Mirror of Safran in Poitier, France on 4 February 2020.

Captured here is the ARC Department group photograph taken at the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre. This group interfaces between the European ALMA users community and the ALMA observatory in Chile. 

Pictured here the Director General of ESO, Xavier Barcons, tours ESO alongside other guests.

The music band "Steve Rothery & friends" entertains visitors at Paranal Residencia.

In 2019, ESO's observatories in Chile hosted a number of events. Pictured here is the band "Steve Rothery & friends" regaling a crowd during this historic event. 

ESO's Director General and the CEO of Safran shake hands beside a replica of a segment of the ELT Main Mirror at inauguration ceremony of the new polishing plant in Poitier, France on 4 February 2020.

On 4 February 2020, the inauguration ceremony of the new polishing plant for segments of the ELT Main Mirror of Safran was hosted in Poitier, France.

ESO Director General, Xavier Barcons, speaks at the inauguration ceremony for the new polishing plant for segments of the ELT Mirror in Poitier, France on 4 February 2020. 

On 4 February 2020, the inauguration ceremony of the new polishing plant for segments of the ELT Main Mirror of Safran was hosted in Poitier, France. 

At the inauguration ceremony of the new polishing plant for segments of the ELT Main Mirror of Safran in Poitier, France on 4 February 2020, ESO's Director General, Xavier Barcons, and Safran CEO, Martin Sion, shake hands. 

An equipment demonstration for the general public happens at the La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert. 

Am 30. Januar 2020 unterzeichneten die ESO und UN Women im Vitacura-Büro der ESO in Santiago de Chile ein Memorandum of Understanding. Das Abkommen wurde von María Noel Vaeza, UN-Direktorin für Frauen in Amerika und der Karibik, und Xavier Barcons, ESO-Generaldirektor unterzeichnet – in Anwesenheit von Mitarbeitern von UN Women und der ESO, die an der Ausarbeitung des Abkommens beteiligt waren.

María Noel Vaeza, UN-Regionaldirektorin für Amerika und die Karibik, und Xavier Barcons, ESO-Generaldirektor, unterzeichneten am 30. Januar 2020 eine Absichtserklärung zwischen den beiden Organisationen.

Xavier Barcons, ESO-Generaldirektor, zeigt María Noel Vaeza, UN-Regionaldirektorin für Amerika und die Karibik, ein Modell des Extremly Large Telescope der ESO. Die ESO und UN Women unterzeichneten am 30. Januar 2020 im Vitacura-Büro der ESO in Santiago de Chile ein Memorandum of Understanding.

ESO staff in Garching celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with a group photograph of women at ESO.

ESO Director General, Xavier Barcons, stands in front of the Chilean Atacama Desert where the La Silla Observatory is situated. Scientists, astronomers, science communicators and the general public gathered to view the total solar eclipse over the observatory and to celebrate this rare event. Picture taken on 2 July 2019.

At La Silla Observatory, a crowd listens intently as a science talk is given. 

A science talk is given at ESO's La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert. 

Group photo of the METIS Progress and Consortium meeting at ESO Garching on 3–6 February 2020. More information about METIS is available on its web page.

Prototyp des von CILAS mit Hilfe der ESO entwickelten deformierbaren Spiegels. Um die Forschung und technologische Entwicklung in Europa zu unterstützen und die Verfügbarkeit der notwendigen Technologie für die Teleskope der ESO sicherzustellen, arbeitete die ESO in den Jahren 2013–2015 mit CILAS und dem Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory an der Konstruktion und Entwicklung von Aktuatoren für deformierbare Spiegel zusammen.

On 23 January 2020 a delegation of executive board members of all Dutch universities visited ESO headquarters as part of a broader work mission in Munich to exchange knowledge and experience with counterparts in research institutions. They met the ESO Director General Xavier Barcons, took a tour at the premises and had a discussion with senior ESO staff members.