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Schilling, Govert.

Europe to the stars : ESO's first 50 years of exploring the southern sky / ESO's First 50 Years of Exploring the Southern Sky [authors Govert Schilling & Lars Lindberg Christensen]. - Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2012. - 224 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)

Chiefly pictorial history of the European Southern Observatory in the Atacama Desert at Cerro La Silla and Cerro Paranal, Chile, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-263) and index.


Accompanying DVD in PAL format.

9783527411924 (Cloth : alk. paper) 3527411925 (Cloth : alk. paper)

2012540473


European Southern Observatory--History.
European Southern Observatory.
Europäische Organisation für Astronomische Forschung in der Südlichen Hemisphäre.


Astronomical observatories--History.--Chile
Astronomical observatories--History.--Europe
Astronomy--Pictorial works.
Astronomical observatories.
Astronomy.
Sternwarte.


Chile.
Europe.
Chile.


History.
Pictorial works.

QB82.C38 / S45 2012 QB68 / S55 2012

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