Press Releases

July 2009

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17 July 2009 - CERN
CERN and EU Commission agree on closer scientific partnership
Today in Brussels, CERN and the European Commission are to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which aims to enhance the long-standing partnership between the two organizations.

16 July 2009 - ESO
An Eagle of Cosmic Proportions
Today ESO has released a new and stunning image of the sky around the Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant star clusters carve out monster columns of dust and gas.

7 July 2009 - ESO
New portrait of Omega Nebula's glistening watercolours
The Omega Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant stars illuminate and sculpt a vast pastel fantasy of dust and gas, is revealed in all its glory by a new ESO image.

1 July 2009 - ESO
Astronomer's new guide to the galaxy: largest map of cold dust revealed
Astronomers have unveiled an unprecedented new atlas of the inner regions of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, peppered with thousands of previously undiscovered dense knots of cold cosmic dust - the potential birthplaces of new stars. Made using observations from the APEX telescope in Chile, this survey is the largest map of cold dust so far, and will prove an invaluable map for observations made with the forthcoming ALMA telescope, as well as the recently launched ESA Herschel space telescope.

1 July 2009 - CERN
Grids Step-up to a Set of New Records: Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09 (STEP'09)
Preparations are under way for the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the world's most powerful particle accelerator. One of the most important systems needed to support the experiments that will utilise this great machine is the global computing grid: the worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG).