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The European Southern Observatory (@ESO) is the most productive observatory in the world. This is the official account for Australia

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Dear friends you may have noticed our lack of activity recently. We’d like to inform you that we have decided to discontinue this local channel. We invite you to follow us @ESO instead! We hope to see you there!

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10. The missing matter in this case is baryonic or ‘normal’ matter—like the protons and neutrons that make up stars, planets and you. It’s different from dark matter, which remains elusive and accounts for about 85% of the total matter in the Universe.

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1/ 📣 Cosmic bursts unveil Universe’s missing matter. Read on 👉 If we add up all of the ‘normal’ matter we can see in galaxies, the total comes up short of what’s predicted by our models of the cosmos

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9/ Australia joined ESO in a strategic partnership just three years ago, allowing Australian astronomers to fully participate in activities related to ESO’s current observatories.
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#ESOjobs Until 31 May 2018 you can apply for the ESO #Studentship Programme Europe, based at ESO's Headquarters in Garching (Germany). Credit: E. Graf / @ESO https://t.co/jnozYFnNFE

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ESO #Flashback: Supermassive black hole with torn-apart star (artist's impression) Credit: @ESO / @ESA / @Hubble_Space / M. Kornmesser https://t.co/dMoWUNk5Ma

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#ESOjobs We are looking for an Instrumentation Engineer for Paranal. The deadline for application is 31 May 2018. https://t.co/agtCAIzo90

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Startrails over Licancabur — a volcano that sits on the border between Chile and Bolivia and is part of the Andean Central Volcanic Zone. Credit: @_ansack / @ESO https://t.co/j7wqyLZw74

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Four 22-watt laser beams create artificial guide stars, allowing astronomers to compensate for the blurring caused by the Earth's atmosphere so that telescope can create sharp images. Credit: @ESO / P. Horálek https://t.co/Xp023uPdIG

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Breathtaking @Hubble_space exhibition "Our Place in Space" comes to #Munich. It will be on display from 17 May 2018 @ESOSupernova #OPIS #ESOSupernova https://t.co/8By1Ut6brf

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. @ALMAObs reaches 1000 published papers, since the first peer-reviewed paper was published back in 2012. https://t.co/y0qeXjrBfP
Credit: ALMA ( @ESO /NAOJ/NRAO)

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#TBT In 1998 ESO #VLT won Technology Prize from the US Popular Science magazine. Credit: @ESO https://t.co/a2K4tkh3pO

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ESO #Flashback: @ALMAObs observes the full solar disc Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) https://t.co/duYWWQa3GG