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The 9th EIROforum School on Instrumentation, hosted by EMBL and ILL took place in Grenoble, France, last week.
The programme included theoretical and practical activities led by EIROforum experts, with a particular focus on the role of artificial intelligence in large-scale scientific research.
📹 ESO/Spavone et al., DSS, N. Risinger (skysurvey .org)
🎧 Mylonite MRP - Mylonite Recordz
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A breakthrough in planetary science, according to several travel agencies.
Yet Reviewer #2 is recommending rejection.
A trip to NGC 5018 🧑🚀
A tenuous stream of stars and gas — a tidal tail — can be seen stretching outwards from this elliptical galaxy. Delicate galactic features such as tidal tails and stellar streams are hallmarks of galactic interactions.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1827/
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We're celebrating two birthdays with this image:
➡️ The ongoing birth of new stars within the nebulae featured here.
➡️ The birthday of the telescope that took this image: the VST, which had its first light 15 years ago today 🎂
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Taken in March 2008 at Paranal, this image captures the full stock of major astronomical bodies that pass between Earth and its host star: Mercury, Venus and the Moon.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1025a/
🔭 #flashback
📷 ESO/Y. Beletsky
2/2 Hosted at our Paranal Observatory in Chile, the VST is a former joint venture between ESO and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), now solely managed by @media.inaf.it
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2623a/
📷 ESO/VPHAS+ team
A Sparkling Spray of Stars ✨
About 2600 light-years from Earth lies NGC 2264. The dazzling star at the top is a massive multiple star system that only emerged from the dust and gas a few million years ago.
More: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0848/
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