ESOcast SD

ESOcast SD

27 episodes

ESOcast is a video podcast series dedicated to bringing you the latest news and research from ESO, the European Southern Observatory. Here we explore the Universe's ultimate frontier.

Podcasts

The furthest ever galactic magnetic field (ESOcast 267 Light)

Published: Sept. 6, 2023, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds

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ESO telescopes help solve pulsar puzzle (ESOcast 266 Light)

Published: Aug. 30, 2023, noon
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds

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Mysterious Neptune Dark Spot Detected from Earth (ESOcast 265 Light)

Published: Aug. 24, 2023, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds

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New type of star gives clues to magnetars' origins (ESOcast 264 Light)

Published: Aug. 17, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds

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Does this planet have a sibling sharing the same orbit? (ESOcast 263 Light)

Published: July 19, 2023, noon
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds

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Hidden views of vast stellar nurseries (ESOcast 262 Light)

Published: May 11, 2023, noon
Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds

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Observing the ashes of the first stars (ESOcast 261 Light)

Published: May 3, 2023, noon
Duration: 1 minute 18 seconds

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First image of a black hole expelling a powerful jet (ESOcast 260 Light)

Published: April 26, 2023, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds

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Witnessing the Birth of a Distant Cluster of Galaxies (ESOcast Light 259)

Published: March 29, 2023, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds

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The Missing Link for Water in the Solar System (ESOcast 258 Light)

Published: March 8, 2023, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds

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Heaviest Element yet Detected in an Exoplanet Atmosphere (ESOcast 257 Light)

Published: Oct. 13, 2022, noon
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds

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Hot Gas Bubble Swirling Around our Supermassive Black Hole (ESOcast 256 Light)

Published: Sept. 22, 2022, noon
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds

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'Black Hole Police' Spot Extragalactic Black Hole (ESOcast 255 Light)

Published: July 18, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds

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What it Takes to Image a Black Hole

Published: May 12, 2022, 1:07 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 5 seconds

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Micronovae a New Kind of Stellar Explosion (ESOcast 254 Light)

Published: April 20, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds

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Largest Molecule yet Spotted in a Planet-forming Disc (ESOcast 253 Light)

Published: March 8, 2022, 8 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds

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Closest Black Hole or no Black Hole at all...? (ESOcast 252)

Published: March 2, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 54 seconds

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Uncovering a Black Hole in an Immense Dust Cloud (ESOcast 251 Light)

Published: Feb. 16, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes

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Ultralight Planet Found Next Door (ESOcast 250 Light)

Published: Feb. 10, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds

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Rogue planets uncovered (ESOcast 249 Light)

Published: Dec. 22, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds

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Watch Stars Move Around our Galaxys Central Black Hole (ESOcast 248 Light)

Published: Dec. 14, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds

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Surprise planet found around extreme star pair (ESOcast 247 Light)

Published: Dec. 8, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds

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Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course (ESOcast 246 Light)

Published: Nov. 30, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds

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Black Hole Discovered in Galaxy Next Door (ESOcast 245 Light)

Published: Nov. 11, 2021, noon
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds

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Finding the stars that help with our dental health (ESOcast 244 Light)

Published: Nov. 4, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds

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ESOcast 234 Light: Most distant quasar with powerful radio jets discovered

Published: March 8, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds

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ESOcast 233 Light: Six-Exoplanet System with Rhythmic Movement Challenges Theories of How Planets Form

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds

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ESOcast 232 Light: Stars and Skulls

Published: Oct. 30, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds

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ESOcast 231 Light: Death by Spaghettification

Published: Oct. 12, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds

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ESOcast 230 Light: Possible Marker of Life Spotted on Venus

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds

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ESOcast 229 Light: Planet-forming Disc Torn Apart by its Three Central Stars

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds

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ESOcast 228 Light: ALMA Sees Most Distant Milky Way Look-alike

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds

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ESOcast 227 Light: Stunning Space Butterfly Captured by ESO Telescope

Published: July 30, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds

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A ‘fly to’ TYC 8998-760-1

Published: July 22, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 seconds

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ESOcast 226 Light: First Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-like Star

Published: July 22, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds

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ESOcast 225 Light: ESO Telescope Captures Disappearance of Massive Star

Published: June 30, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds

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ESOcast 224: First Interstellar Visitors to the Solar System

Published: June 25, 2020, noon
Duration: 5 minutes 23 seconds

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ESOcast Light 223: Hot Stars are Plagued by Giant Magnetic Spots

Published: June 1, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds

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ESOcast 222: Ten Fascinating Paradoxes about the Universe

Published: May 27, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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ESOcast 221 Light: ESO Telescope Sees Signs of Planet Birth

Published: May 20, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds

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ESOcast 220 Light: Closest Black Hole to Earth Found

Published: May 6, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds

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ESOcast 219 Light: Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole

Published: April 16, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds

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ESO astronomy at home

Published: April 3, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds

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ESOcast 218: The Stranger Exoplanets

Published: March 11, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds

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ESOcast 217 Light: ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse

Published: Feb. 14, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds

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ESOcast 216 Light: ALMA Catches Beautiful Outcome of Stellar Fight

Published: Feb. 5, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds

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ESOcast 215 Light: Interstellar Thread of One of Life’s Building Blocks Revealed

Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds

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ESOcast 214 Light: A Black Holes' Breakfast at the Cosmic Dawn

Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds

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ESOcast 213 Light: Stunning stars in the Milky Way central region

Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds

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ESOcast 212 Light: First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found

Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds

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ESOcast 211 Light: ESO Telescope Reveals What Could be the Smallest Dwarf Planet in the Solar System

Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds

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ESOcast 210 Light: First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision

Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds

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