eso-

American  

1. a combining form meaning “inner,” used in the formation of compound words.

   esonarthex.

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ESO British  

abbreviation

1. European Southern Observatory

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Etymology

Origin of eso-

< Greek, combining form representing ésō within

Example Sentences

Sweden is one of ESO's 16 member states.

From Science Daily

"The smaller size and faster rotation now measured will make Hayabusa2's visit even more interesting, but also even more challenging," says co-author Olivier Hainaut, an astronomer at ESO in Germany.

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Because the asteroid is both extremely small and faint, the team needed to wait until the object made a relatively close pass by Earth and then rely on some of the largest available telescopes, including ESO's VLT in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

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"Spectropolarimetry delivers information about the geometry of the explosion that other types of observation cannot provide because the angular scales are too tiny," says Lifan Wang, co-author and professor at the Texas A&M University in the US, who began his career as a student at ESO.

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"This discovery not only reshapes our understanding of stellar explosions, but also demonstrates what can be achieved when science transcends borders," says co-author and ESO astronomer Ferdinando Patat.

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