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unusual facts about European Southern Observatory


Associated Universities, Inc.

ALMA is funded in East Asia by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan in cooperation with the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan, in Europe by the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) and in North America by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC).


400 Years of the Telescope

It was shot on RED Digital Cinema at the world's leading universities and observatories including the European Southern Observatory, Institute for Astronomy, SETI Institute, Space Telescope Science Institute, Anglo-Australian Observatory, and Harvard University.

Extremely large telescope

The Very Large Telescope, of the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, is also of note, with 4 × 8.2 m, 4 × 1.8, and 1 × 2.61, all on separate mounts but in one building for interferometry.

Hidden Universe 3D

The movie is produced by December Cinema Productions in association with Film Victoria, Swinburne University of Technology, and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

Michael Rowan-Robinson

Asteroid 4599, discovered in 1985 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory, has been renamed "Rowan" to honor Michael Rowan-Robinson.


see also

Jef Geeraerts

The 13027 Geeraerts (1989 GJ4) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on April 3, 1989 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory named after Jef Geeraerts