ESOcast HD show

ESOcast HD

Summary: ESOcast is a video podcast series dedicated to bringing you the latest news and research from ESO – Astronomy made on planet Earth. Here we explore the Universe\'s ultimate frontier with our host Doctor J, a.k.a. Dr. Joe Liske.

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Podcasts:

 ESOcast 89: Chile Chill 8 – “A Bird’s Eye View of ESO Observatories” | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 422

Soaring through the cloudless Chilean sky might seem like something from a dream, but this ESOcast allows you to do just that. Incredible aerial photography of ESO’s facilities in Chile provides a new perspective on the world’s most productive astronomical observatories, showcasing their engineering ingenuity and spectacular surroundings from a whole new angle.

 ESOcast 88: Fulldome Specialists visit Chile | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 586

A team of photographers, including some ESO Photo Ambassadors, is visiting the observatory sites in Chile to obtain images for use in planetarium presentations. This is ESO's Fulldome Expedition.

 ESOcast 87: Planet found around closest Star | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 359

This is the ESOcast that no viewer will want to miss. We discuss the result of the quest to find a planet around the closest star to the Solar System.

 ESOcast 86: From Dr. to Professor -- about the important role of ESO’s community | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 374

ESO is a place where talented engineers, astronomers and many other specialists from all over the world meet and work together. A place where knowledge is shared to provide the astronomical community with the tools to conduct cutting-edge research. One of the ESO scientists who is well known to ESOcast viewers is our regular presenter, Dr J. aka Dr Joe Liske.

 ESOcast 85: Chile Chill 7 — "Visitors to the Desert" | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 428

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. It’s paradise for the professional astronomers who use ESO’s telescopes. Some of the world’s most powerful instruments for astronomical research are here.

 ESOcast 84: The New E-ELT Design Unveiled | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 410

ESO has awarded the biggest contract in ground-based astronomy — to build the E-ELT dome and telescope structure. So it’s a good time to take a look at what the E-ELT will be.

 ESOcast 83: Ultracool Dwarf with Planets | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 301

Astronomers using telescopes at ESO's observatories in Chile have discovered three planets around a dim dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth. These worlds have sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and the Earth, and they are the best targets so far found in the hunt for life elsewhere in the Universe.

 ESOcast 82: Zodiacal Light | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 382

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is famed for its dark night skies, which can be enjoyed in their full glory thanks to the absence of light pollution. But even the darkest sky is not completely dark. Astronomers at ESO's observatories often encounter a natural light phenomenon above ESO’s telescopes known as the zodiacal light.

 ESOcast 79: 20 Years of Exoplanets | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 453

Not a single confirmed planet outside the Solar System had been detected before the year 1990. But, remarkably, we now know of thousands and have studied many in surprising detail.

 Eyes on the Skies (Full movie) | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 3605
 Europe to the Stars — ESO’s first 50 years of exploring the southern sky (Full movie) | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 3670
 ESOcast 78: Airglow | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 360

ESO’s La Silla Observatory on a moonless night, deep in the Atacama Desert of Chile. It should be very dark -- but strange green and red colours can be seen to shimmer in the sky. What are these mysterious glows? And why do they seem to be getting more frequent? Find out more in this episode.

 ESOcast 77: Mysterious Ripples Found Racing Through Planet-forming Disc | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 260

Images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed unique and totally unexpected structures in the dusty disc around the star AU Microscopii. These fast-moving wave-like dust features are unlike anything ever observed, or even predicted, before now.

 ESOcast 76: A Polarised View of Stellar Magnetism | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 509

ESO telescopes are being used to search for the subtle signs of magnetic fields in other stars and even to map out the star spots on their surfaces. This information is beginning to reveal how and why so many stars, including our own Sun, are magnetic, and what the implications might be for life on Earth and elsewhere in the Universe.

 ESO welcome video (Spanish) | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 660

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