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- Season 1 James Bond at Paranal
- Season 1 Unprecedented 16-year long study tracks stars orbiting Milky Way black hole
- Season 1 The ALMA observatory gets its first 'eye'
- Season 1 24 hours in the life of an ESO astronomer
- Season 1 ESO's First Observatory Celebrates 40th Anniversary
- Season 1 Lightest Exoplanet Found
- Season 1 Behind every great astronomer stands a great engineer
- Season 1 Celestial Tango Makes for a Gorgeous Nebula
- Season 1 GigaGalaxy Zoom: The Sky, from the Eye to the Telescope
- Season 1 New Exoplanets Found
- Season 1 VISTA: A Pioneering New Survey Telescope Starts Work
- Season 1 A sharper view of the Universe with the VLT Interferometer
- Season 1 Orion in a New Light
- Season 1 Recoating a Giant VLT Mirror
- Season 1 E-ELT Site Chosen
- Season 1 Constructing ALMA — The World's Largest Observatory
- Season 1 Exoplanet Caught on the Move
- Season 1 Photographers of the Night
- Season 1 Richest planetary system discovered
- Season 1 The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)
- Season 1 The most distant galaxy ever measured
- Season 1 A telescope's wire to the world
- Season 1 First planet of extragalactic origin
- Season 1 Chasing Gamma Ray Bursts at Top Speed: The VLT’s Rapid Response Mode
- Season 1 Life and Leisure at Paranal
- Season 1 An ESO Astronomer at Work
- Season 1 ESO Hidden Treasures Competition
- Season 1 Running a Desert Town
- Season 1 First Images from the VLT Survey Telescope -- VST and 268 megapixel OmegaCAM start work
- Season 1 Pandora's Cluster
- Season 1 Most Distant Quasar Found
- Season 1 Under Chilean Skies
- Season 1 How To Stop a Star's Twinkle - The astronomy podcast exploring the cosmic frontier with Dr J
- Season 1 Fifty New Exoplanets
- Season 1 ALMA Opens Its Eyes
- Season 1 Full-size Mock-up of World's Largest Telescope Mirror Built at ESO's Open House Day
- Season 1 Faraway Eris is Pluto’s twin
- Season 1 A Black Hole’s Dinner is Fast Approaching
- Season 1 When Speed Matters - Discovery of the Accelerating Universe Wins 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics
- Season 1 Going South - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 1
- Season 1 Looking Up - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 2
- Season 1 Seeing Sharp - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 3
- Season 1 Special: Changing Views -- Special 50th anniversary episode #4
- Season 1 Reaching Out - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 5
- Season 1 Catching Light - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 6
- Season 1 Finding Life - Special 50th Anniversary Episode 7
- Season 1 Building Big — Special 50th Anniversary Episode 8
- Season 1 On Air – Behind the Scenes of A Day in The Life of ESO
- Season 1 Chile Chill 1
- Season 1 All Systems Go for Highest Altitude Supercomputer
ESOcast - Season 1 Episode 29 Running a Desert Town
0.00 48 minutes The Atacama Desert in northern Chile -- one of the driest and most hostile environments in the world. Under the blazing Sun, only a few species of animals and plants have evolved to survive. Yet, this is where the European Southern Observatory operates its Very Large Telescope. Running this technological oasis in the barren desert, and making it a comfortable place for people to live, poses many challenges.
