On. Oct. 5, 1962, the European Southern Observatory was born!
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental research organization made up of 16 nations that work together to study the southern sky. Before ESO, all the major ground-based telescopes in the world were in the northern hemisphere. So ESO built some really big and really awesome telescopes in Chile. With these telescopes, scientists have discovered exoplanets like Proxima b, they've found the oldest star in the Milky Way, and they've shown that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental research organization made up of 16 nations that work together to study the southern sky. Before ESO, all the major ground-based telescopes in the world were in the northern hemisphere. So ESO built some really big and really awesome telescopes in Chile. With these telescopes, scientists have discovered exoplanets like Proxima b, they've found the oldest star in the Milky Way, and they've shown that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:03In 1962, the European Southern Observatory was born.
00:07Happy birthday, European Southern Observatory!
00:10The European Southern Observatory, or ESO, is an intergovernmental research organization
00:14made up of 16 nations that work together to study the southern sky.
00:18Before ESO, all the major ground-based telescopes in the world were in the northern hemisphere.
00:23So ESO built some really big and really awesome telescopes in Chile,
00:27and with these telescopes, scientists have discovered exoplanets like Proxima b,
00:31they've found the oldest star in the Milky Way,
00:33and they've shown that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
00:36And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:39Transcription by ESO. Translation by —