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ESO Press Releases and Photos 2001

ESO Press Photo 38/01 (27 December 2001) : Season's Greetings - 1001 Nights with FORS1 on the VLT . HI-RES
ESO Press Photos 37a-e/01 (20 December 2001) : The Eagle's EGGs - VLT ISAAC Looks for Young Stars in the Famous "Pillars of Creation" . With PR Video Clips 08a-b/01 HI-RES
ESO Press Release 29/01 (14 December 2001) : The ESO Educational Office Reaches Out towards Europe's Teachers - ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercises Provide a Taste of Real Astronomy . With PR Photo 36/01 .
ESO Press Release 28/01 (5 December 2001) : First Image and Spectrum of a Dark Matter Object - HST and VLT Identify MACHO as a Small and Cool Star . With PR Photos 35a-b/01 .
ESO Press Release 27/01 (5 December 2001) : United Kingdom to Join ESO on July 1, 2002 - ESO and PPARC Councils Endorse Terms of Accession .
ESO Press Release 26/01 (5 December 2001) : Exploring the Digital Universe with Europe's Astrophysical Virtual Observatory - Vast Databanks at the Astronomers' Fingertips . With PR Photo 34a/01 . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 25/01 (3 December 2001) : Sharpest Ever VLT Images at NAOS-CONICA "First Light" - Very Promising Start-Up of New Adaptive Optics Instrument at Paranal . With PR Photos 33a-l/01 and PR Video Clip 07/01 . The summary is separately available. HI-RES
ESO Press Photos 32a-b/01 (29 November 2001) : An Infrared Portrait of the Barred Spiral Galaxy Messier 83 . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 24/01 (28 November 2001) : A Very Massive Stellar Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy - VLT ISAAC Uncovers an Enigmatic Microquasar . With PR Photos 31a-c/01 .
ESO Press Release 23/01 (5 November 2001) : Giant Eyes for the VLT Interferometer - First Scientific Results with Combined Light Beams from Two 8.2-m Unit Telescopes . With PR Photos 30a-e/01 . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 22/01 (8 October 2001) : Young and Waltzing Binary Stars - ADONIS Observes Low-mass Eclipsing System in Orion . With PR Photos 29a-f/01 and PR Video Clip 06/01 .
ESO Press Release 21/01 (8 October 2001) : Life in the Universe - Live Webcast from Europe's Leading Research Organisations .
ESO Press Release 20/01 (30 August 2001) : Hunting the Southern Skies with SIMBA - First Images from the New "Millimetre Camera" on SEST at La Silla . With PR Photos 28a-d/01 .
ESO Press Photos 27a-b/01 (23 August 2001) : Virtual Telescope Observes Record-Breaking Asteroid - New Data Show that "2001 KX76" Is Larger than Ceres .
ESO Press Release 19/01 (22 August 2001) : Heavy Metal Stars - La Silla Telescope Detects Lots of Lead in Three Distant Binaries . With PR Photos 26a-b/01 .
ESO Press Release 18/01 (14 August 2001) : Dancing around the Black Hole - ISAAC Finds "Cool" Young Stellar Systems at the Centres of Active Galaxies . With PR Photos 25a-f/01 .
ESO Press Release 17/01 (1 August 2001) : The Glory of a Nearby Star - Optical Light from a Hot Stellar Corona Detected with the VLT . With PR Photos 24a-d/01 . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 16/01 (2 July 2001) : Life in the Universe - Is there anybody out there? With PR Video Clip 05/01 .
ESO Press Release 15/01 (28 June 2001) : Sounds of a Star - Acoustic Oscillations in Solar-Twin "Alpha Cen A" Observed from La Silla by Swiss Team . With PR Photos 23a-b/01 . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 14/01 (7 June 2001) : NTT Observations Indicate that Brown Dwarfs Form Like Stars - Dusty Disks Detected around Very Young Substellar Objects in the Orion Nebula . With PR Photos 22a-c/01 . HI-RES
ESO Press Photos 21a-f/01 (7 June 2001) : Aurorae and Volcanic Eruptions - Thermal-IR Observations of Jupiter and Io with ISAAC at the VLT .
ESO Press Release 13/01 (31 May 2001) : A Hungry Quasar Caught in the Act - The VLT Secures Spectacular Image of Distant Gravitational Interaction . With PR Photos 20a-b/01 .
ESO Press Release 12/01 (21 May 2001) : Leading European Research Organisations Join Forces in EIROFORUM .
ESO Press Release 11/01 (18 May 2001) : A Glimpse of the Very Early Universal Web - The VLT Maps Extremely Distant Galaxies . With PR Photos 19a-e/01 and PR Video Clip 04/01 . HI-RES
ESO Press Photos 18a-b/01 (18 May 2001) : Comet LINEAR Splits Further - Third Nucleus Observed with the VLT . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 10/01 (9 May 2001) : The Harsh Destiny of a Planet? - The VLT Uncovers Traces of Stellar Cannibalism . With PR Photo 17/01 and Artist's impression of the engulfment of a planet . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 09/01 (25 April 2001) : VLT Spectra "Resolve" a Stellar Disk at 25,000 Light-Years Distance - Unique Observations of a Microlensing Event . With PR Photos 16a-d/01 . HI-RES
ESO Press Photos 15a-f/01 (10 April 2001) : The Capodimonte Deep Field - A Window towards the Distant Universe . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 08/01 (6 April 2001) : Europe, Japan and North America Prepare for Joint Construction of the Giant Radio Telescope "ALMA" in Chile . With PR Photo 14/01 .
ESO Press Release 07/01 (4 April 2001) : Exoplanets: The Hunt Continues! - Swiss Telescope at La Silla Very Successful . With PR Photos 13a-b/01 .
ESO Press Photos 12a-e/01 (30 March 2001) : TIMMI2 Images the Heart of the Orion Nebula - New Vistas with Powerful Thermal Infrared Instrument at La Silla . HI-RES
ESO Press Photo 11/01 (23 March 2001) : A High-Tech Oasis in the Desert - Very-Wide-Angle View of the Paranal Area . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 06/01 (18 March 2001) : "First Light" for the VLT Interferometer - Excellent Fringes From Bright Stars Prove VLTI Concept . With PR Photos 10a-l/01 and PR Video Clip 03/01 . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 05/01 (13 March 2001) : Chandra and the VLT Jointly Investigate the Cosmic X-Ray Background . With PR Photos 09a-b/01 . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 04/01 (8 March 2001) : A Supermassive Black Hole in a Nearby Galaxy - ISAAC Inspects the Center of Centaurus A . With PR Photos 08a-c/01 HI-RES
ESO Press Photos 07a-b/01 (6 March 2001) : Visiting with an Old and Active Friend: La Silla Telescope Views Comet Hale-Bopp at 2 Billion Kilometres . HI-RES
ESO Press Release 03/01 (2 March 2001) : Ashes from the Elder Brethren - UVES Observes Stellar Abundance Anomalies in Globular Clusters . With PR Photos 06a-b/01 HI-RES
ESO Press Release 02/01 (7 February 2001) : How Old is the Universe? - First Reading of a Basic Cosmic Chronometer with UVES and the VLT . With PR Photos 05a-b/01
ESO Press Photos 04a-i/01 and PR Video Clips 02a-b/01 (26 January 2001) : New Paranal Views . HI-RES
ESO Press Photos 03a-d/01 (17 January 2001) : The Orion Nebula: The Jewel in the Sword: Major VLT Research Project Opens with Beautiful Infrared View . HI-RES
ESO PR Video Clip 01/01 (11 January 2001) : "Physics On Stage" Festival Video Now Available . Access the clip via the accompanying text.
ESO Press Release 01/01 (10 January 2001) : How to Become a Star - ESO Telescopes Provide Most Detailed View Ever Into a Dark Cloud . With PR Photos 02a-c/01 HI-RES
ESO Press Photo 01/01 (4 January 2001) : ESO PR Highlights in 2001 .

ESO Press Releases and Photos from other years:
2002 , 2000 , 1999 , 1998 , 1997 , 1996 , 1995 , 1994