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	European Southern Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an international astronomical organisation, composed and supported by ten countries from the European Union plus Switzerland.
		Created in 1962, it is famous for building and operating some of the largest and most technologically advanced telescopes in the world, such as the New Technology Telescope (NTT), which was one of the telescopes which pioneered active optics technology, and more recently the VLT (Very Large Telescope), consisting of 4 8-meter class telescopes.
		Of the eighteen telescopes at La Silla Observatory, three are operated by ESO for use by the ESO astronomical community:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Southern_Observatory (498 words)

	European Southern Observatory
		A multinational organization, founded in 1962, with 10 European member states (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom), which operates two major observatories in Chile, La Silla Observatory and Paranal Observatory, the latter the home of the Very Large Telescope.
		ESO's headquarters are in Garching, near Munich, Germany.
		ESO also has a major role in the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) project and is carrying out a concept study for the OverWhelmingly Large Telescope.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/E/ESO.html (153 words)

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		The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an international astronomical organisation, composed and supported by ten countries from the European Union and created in 1962.
		ESO operates two major observatories in the Atacama desert, Chile:
		If built, it will be the largest telescope in the world.
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	European Southern Observatory
		European Southern Observatory (ESO), an intergovernmental organization for astronomical research with headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany.
		The ESO began in 1962 as a consortium among Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
		The second observatory, initiated in 1988 and inaugurated in 1999, is located atop Cerro Paranal at an altitude of about 8,640 ft (2,635 m).
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