Press Releases
January 2009
28 January 2009 - ESO
Black hole outflows from Centaurus A detected with APEX
Astronomers have a new insight into the active galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128), as the jets and lobes emanating from the central black hole have been imaged at submillimetre wavelengths for the first time. The new data, from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile, which is operated by ESO, have been combined with visible and X-ray wavelengths to produce this striking new image.
28 January 2009 - ESA
New steps in ESA/Commission cooperation on GMES
Today in Brussels, the amendment to the EC-ESA GMES agreement was signed by Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain, the European Space Agency (ESA) Director General, and Mr Heinz Zourek, Director General of the European Commission's Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry.
25 January 2009 - EMBL
Re-write the textbooks: transcription is bidirectional
Researchers in the groups of Lars Steinmetz at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and Wolfgang Huber at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EB)] in Hinxton, UK, have now unravelled how yeast generates its transcripts and have come a step closer to understanding their function.
19 January 2009 - ESO
Frantic activity revealed in dusty stellar factories
Thanks to the Very Large Telescope's acute and powerful near-infrared eye, astronomers have uncovered a host of new young, massive and dusty stellar nurseries in nearby galaxy NGC 253. The centre of this galaxy appears to harbour a twin of our own Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
5 January 2009 - ESA
ESA Director General to meet the press in Paris
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain will meet the press at ESA Headquarters in Paris. The gathering will start at 08:30 with breakfast, followed at 09:00 by a press briefing to review the Agency's activities in 2008 and look ahead to those of 2009, a year set to be full of events and marked by several major launches i.e. Herschel-Planck, GOCE, SMOS and CryoSat.
5 January 2009 - ESA
Overview of ESA communication activities in 2009 relevant to the media
Press conferences, exhibitions, launches, political events … the list of the main communications activities that ESA will be involved in is taking shape. Pencil these dates into your diaries as of now.