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- Astronomers win!🥳 Protest saves @eso.org #Paranal Observatory's dark skies from industrial project. #MPE director & #Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel leads successful fight to protect a unique site of world-class telescopes, including #VLT and the currently built #ELT. ➡️ www.mpe.mpg.de/8134359/news...
- 1/ Alles bereit für den Tag der offenen Tür 🚪 #TdoT25 der #Bundesregierung im #BMFTR am 23. und 24. August. Im Auftrag der @eso.org präsentieren #MPIA und @mpe-garching.bsky.social der @maxplanck.de das Extremely Large Telescope #ELT 🔭. #Astronomie #Weltraum #ESO 🌌
- 🤯Major milestone for #MICADO! The 5-ton cryostat - core of the 6m camera - arrived at #MPE. It keeps optics & detectors at ~82 K 🥶 to enable precise infrared observations for @eso.org Extremely Large Telescope #ELT. More about MICADO: lnkd.in/e5qVq6tY Video: Federico Biondi/MPE.
- Germany’s new Federal Minister for Research, Technology, and Space, @dorobaer.bsky.social visited #MPE. She talked to MPE directors Reinhard Genzel, Kirpal Nandra and Frank Eisenhauer and visited #MICADO, a pioneering instrument for the upcoming #ELT being currently built in Chile by @eso.org.
- Important milestone for #MICADO, first-light instrument of @eso.org #ELT! The De-rotator was mounted onto the support structure. The next big step will then be installing the cryostat. Learn more about ELT's Super Camera, which is built and designed under #MPE leadership: www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/micado
