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Watching the skies in the name of science
The La Silla observatory, 600 Km north of Santiago de Chile and at altitude of 2,400 meters, has been a European southern observatory stronghold since the 1960s. Here, ESO operates several of the most productive 4-meters class telescopes in the world.
La Silla is a mountain bordering the southern extremity of the Atacama Desert in Chile. It is locatedabout 160 Km north of La Serena, 27 Km south of the Las campanas observatory, and 100 Km north of the Cerro Tololo observatory.
The 3.58-meter New technology Telescope (NTT) broke new ground for telescope engineering and design and was the first in the world to have a computer-controlled main mirror (active optics), a technology developed at ESO and now applied to most of the world is currentlarge telescopes.
The ESO 3.6-meter telescope is now home to the world is foremost extrasolar planet hunter: HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher), a spectrograph with unrivaled precision.
The La Silla observatory is the first world-class observatory to have been granted certification for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 Quality Management System. Theinfrastructure of La Silla is also used by many of the ESO member states for targeted projects such as the Swiss 1.2-meter Euler telescope, as well as more common user facilities such as the 2.2-meter Max Planck telescope. The 6.7-million pixel Wide Field Imager on the 2.2-meter telescope has taken many amazing images of celestial objects, some of which have now become icons in their own right.
Withabout 300 refereed publications attributable to the work of the observatory per year, La Silla remains at the forefront of astronomy. La Silla has led to an enormous number of scientific discoveries, including several “first”. The HARPS spectrograph is the undisputed champion at finding low-mass extrasolar planets. It detected the system around Gliese 581, which contains what may be the firstknow rocky planet in a habitable zone, outside the solar System (ESO 22/07). Several telescopes at La silla played a crucial role in linking gamma-ray bursts—The most energetic explosions in the universe since the Big Bang—with the explosions of massive stars. Since 1987, the ESO La Silla Observatory has also played an important role in the study and follow-up of the nearest recent supernova, SN 1987A.

Viendo los cielos en nombre de la ciencia
El Observatorio de La Silla, 600 Km al norte de Santiago de Chile y a la altura de 2.400 metros, ha sido un baluarte del Observatorio Europeo Austral desde la década de 1960. Aquí, ESO opera varios de los telescopios de clase 4 metros más productivos del mundo.
La Silla es una montaña bordeando el extremo sur del desierto de Atacama en Chile. Estásituada unos 160 Km al norte de La Serena, 27 Km al sur del Observatorio de Las campanas y 100 Km al norte del Observatorio de Cerro Tololo.
La nueva tecnología de 3.58-meter Telescope (NTT) abrió un nuevo camino para telescopio de ingeniería y diseño y fue la primera en el mundo en tener un controlado por ordenador principal espejo (óptica activa), una tecnología desarrollada en ESO y ahora seaplica a la mayoría del mundo es actuales grandes telescopios.
El telescopio de 3,6 metros ESO, es ahora hogar al mundo es cazador de planeta extrasolar todo: arpas (alta exactitud Radial Velocity Planet Searcher), un espectrógrafo con precisión incomparable.

El Observatorio de La Silla es el primer observatorio de clase mundial que se ha concedido la certificación de la OrganizaciónInternacional de normalización (ISO) 9001 sistema de gestión de calidad. La infraestructura de La Silla también es utilizada por muchos de los Estados miembros ESO para proyectos específicos como el telescopio suizo de Euler de 1.2 metros, así como más instalaciones de usuario comunes como el telescopio de 2,2 metros Max Planck.
El píxel 6,70 millones Imager de campo amplio en el telescopio de 2,2...