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A very hungry planet! 🪐

That little dot is WISPIT 2b, a newborn exoplanet. About 5 times the mass of Jupiter, the planet is eating its way through its dusty cradle as it orbits the host star, a younger version of our Sun 🌞

Taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in #Chile, this image is the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings.

📷 ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

A white protoplanetary disc at the centre of the picture takes up most of the frame. The elliptical cloud of dust and gas consists of several concentric rings and gaps. In one of the larger gaps there is a little dot: a planet.

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@esoastronomy@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

A very hungry planet! 🪐

Taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in #Chile, this image is the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings.

📷 ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · last week

Argentine and Chilean soccer fans traded blame on Thursday after a pitched battle in a Buenos Aires stadium involving knives, sticks and stun grenades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/08/22/soccer/chile-argentina-soccer-violence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #soccer #argentina #chile #universidaddechile #independiente #hooliganism

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ESO

@esoastronomy@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

As the Milky Way band appears to pour into our Extremely Large Telescope in #Chile, the cranes around it seem to do the same while they further advance the telescope.

Once complete, the ELT will be breaking down the light above in unparalleled detail with its huge 39 m mirror.

More: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2533a/

📷 C. Letelier/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #astrophotography #space #science

The image shows the open metallic dome of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) at the centre of the picture taking up the lower half of the frame. At the top, like a river the Milky Way band horizontally pours into the ELT. The construction site of the ELT is surrounded by cranes, while the Milky Way lights up the sky in various colours. One patch of the Milky Way shines the brightest, the centre of the galaxy.

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@esoastronomy@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

As the Milky Way band appears to pour into our Extremely Large Telescope in #Chile, the cranes around it seem to do the same while they further advance the telescope.

Once complete, the ELT will be breaking down the light above in unparalleled detail with its huge 39 m mirror.

More: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2533a/

📷 C. Letelier/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #astrophotography #space #science

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · last month

Coastal regions from Chile to the western U.S. were on edge after a powerful earthquake in Russia’s Far East triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/asia-pacific/tsunami-chile-us-russia-quake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #tsunami #earthquakes #russia #japan #us #hawaii #peru #chile #pacificocean

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@danieruotakuboy@vzla.masto.host · 2 months ago

Vi esta imagen en FB y me pareció interesante.

Los salarios mínimos en los países sudamericanos. 💸

#Venezuela #Colombia #Ecuador #Perú #Brasil #Bolivia #Chile #Paraguay #Uruguay #Argentina

El mapa ilustra la disparidad de salarios mínimos en Sudamérica. Uruguay ($590), Chile ($530) y Ecuador ($470) muestran los valores más altos, mientras que Brasil ($245) y Argentina ($280) están entre los más bajos. Países como Colombia ($350), Perú ($302), Bolivia ($398) y Paraguay ($386) tienen valores intermedios. La cifra de $2 para Venezuela resalta la extrema variación económica en la región.

DanieruOtakuBoy

@danieruotakuboy@vzla.masto.host · 2 months ago

Vi esta imagen en FB y me pareció interesante.

Los salarios mínimos en los países sudamericanos. 💸

#Venezuela #Colombia #Ecuador #Perú #Brasil #Bolivia #Chile #Paraguay #Uruguay #Argentina

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@esoastronomy@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

New instance, new #introduction !

Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

A drone photograph of a gigantic telescope in the desert, at sunset. The telescope dome is under construction, and partially covered in cladding. The sliding doors of the dome are open, revelaning the telescope inside: a cylindrical structure of white criss-crossed beams. The dome is surrounded by huge cranes, and the entire scene is bathed in the golden light of the setting Sun in the background.

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@esoastronomy@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

New instance, new #introduction !

Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

Juan Carlos Muñoz

@astro_jcm@mastodon.online · 3 months ago

🚨 #JOB ALERT 🚨

If you're an experienced communicator, passionate about #astronomy, and fluent in English and Spanish, there's a great job opportunity as ESO's Head of Communication in #Chile

Details here: https://recruitment.eso.org/jobs/2025_0041#

#scicomm #FediHire #astrodon #astronomy #science

A night photograph showing four large cylindrical telescope domes under a dark starry sky. One of them is firing four yellow laser beams that appear to converge on one point in the sky. The bright band of the Milky Way crosses the lower part of the sky.

ESO

@esoastronomy@astrodon.social · 8 months ago

#Introduction Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

#astrodon #astrophysics #space #science