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ESOcast 231 Light: Death by Spaghettification
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ESOcast 230 Light: Possible Marker of Life Spotted on Venus
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ESOcast 227 Light: Stunning Space Butterfly Captured by ESO Telescope
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ESOcast 226 Light: First Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-like Star
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ESOcast 225 Light: ESO Telescope Captures Disappearance of Massive Star
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ESOcast 220 Light: Closest Black Hole to Earth Found
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ESOcast 219 Light: Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole
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ESOcast 217 Light: ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse
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ESOcast 215 Light: Interstellar Thread of One of Life’s Building Blocks Revealed
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ESOcast 214 Light: A Black Holes' Breakfast at the Cosmic Dawn
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ESOcast 210 Light: First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision
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ESOcast 208 Light: A Cosmic Pretzel (4K UHD)
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ESOcast 207 Light: Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil halo (4K UHD)
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ESOcast 206 Light: VISTA Unveils the Large Magellanic Cloud (4K UHD)
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ESOcast 205 Light: The Rosy Glow of a Cosmic Seagull
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ESOcast 204 Light: La Silla Total Solar Eclipse Concludes
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ESOcast 202 Light: ESO helps protect Earth from dangerous asteroids
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ESOcast 201 Light: ATTRACT
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ESOcast 200 Light: ESO helps map the Galaxy
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ESOcast 199 Light: Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole
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ESOcast 198 Light: La Silla Observatory turns 50!
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ESOcast 197 Light: GRAVITY uncovers stormy exoplanet skies
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ESOcast 196 Light: 20 Years of exploring the Universe
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ESOcast 195 Light: A Cosmic Bat in Flight
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ESOcast 193 Light: Bubbles of Brand New Stars
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ESOcast 192 Light: GRAVITY Resolves a Gravitationally Microlensed Star
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ESOcast 191 Light: A Fleeting Moment in Time
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ESOcast 189 Light: World’s Largest Array of Gamma-Ray Telescope comes to Paranal
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ESOcast 188 Light: Dancing with the Enemy
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ESOcast 187 Light: First Light for SPECULOOS
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ESOcast 185 Light: Cosmic Serpent
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ESOcast 184 Light: Super-Earth Orbiting Barnard’s Star (4K UHD)
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ESOcast 183 Light: Stunning Exoplanet Time-lapse (4K UHD)
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ESOcast 182 Light: ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain (4K UHD)
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ESOcast 181 Light: Most Detailed Observations of Material Orbiting close to a Black Hole (4K UHD)
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ESOcast 180 Light: The Pirate of the Southern Skies (4K UHD)
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ESOcast 179 Light: Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found (4K UHD)
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ESOcast 178 Light: A Universe Aglow (4K UHD)
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6 years ago
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ESOcast 177 Light: A Galactic Gem (4K UHD)
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ESOcast 176 Light: Building the Biggest Optical Telescope in the World (4K UHD) | ELT Updates
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ESOcast 175 Light: Stars and Dust in the Carina Nebula (4K UHD)
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6 years ago
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ESOcast 174 Light: Elliptical Elegance (4K UHD)
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ESOcast 172 Light: Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics (4K UHD)
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