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ESOcast (2008) is a documentary web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch ESOcast online in HD.

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ESOcast — Series Details

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Season 1

• E1: James Bond at Paranal (2008-10-30) — ESO's Paranal Observatory has just been used as the key location for Quantum of Solace, the latest film in one of the most successful movie franchises – that of renowned secret age
• E2: Unprecedented 16-year long study tracks stars orbiting Milky Way black hole (2008-12-10) — In this second episode of the ESOcast Dr. J takes us to the centre of the Milky Way to talk about a supermassive black hole there located. We will hear from two scientists involved
• E3: The ALMA observatory gets its first 'eye' (2008-12-18) — In this third episode of the ESOcast Dr. J takes us to the site of ALMA, the Atacama Millimeter / submillimeter Array in the Atacama region in Chile. ALMA is an observatory under c
• E4: 24 hours in the life of an ESO astronomer — Have you ever wondered what it must be like to be an astronomer? In this fourth episode of the ESOcast, Dr. J takes us behind the scenes at ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile to s
• E5: ESO's First Observatory Celebrates 40th Anniversary (2009-03-24) — ESO's La Silla Observatory, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary, became the largest astronomical observatory of its time. It led Europe to the frontline of astronomical resea
• E6: Lightest Exoplanet Found (2009-04-21) — Well-known exoplanet researcher Michel Mayor announced on 21 April 2009 the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, “e”, in the famous system Gliese 581, is o
• E8: Behind every great astronomer stands a great engineer — At observatories worldwide most of the glory goes to the astronomers who provide us with new vistas of the heavens, but this is only possible thanks to the many experienced technic
• E9: Celestial Tango Makes for a Gorgeous Nebula (2009-08-05) — ESO has just released a stunning new image of a field of stars towards the constellation of Carina. This striking view is ablaze with a flurry of stars of all colours and brightnes
• E10: GigaGalaxy Zoom: The Sky, from the Eye to the Telescope (2009-10-19) — On 19 October 2009, at an international exoplanet conference, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO’
• E11: New Exoplanets Found (2009-12-11) — VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a new telescope that has just started work at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile and has made its first release o
• E12: VISTA: A Pioneering New Survey Telescope Starts Work
• E13: A sharper view of the Universe with the VLT Interferometer (2010-02-10) — The Orion Nebula reveals many of its hidden secrets in a dramatic image taken by ESO’s new VISTA survey telescope. VISTA — the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy —
• E14: Orion in a New Light — Every night, all year round, the ESO Very Large Telescope, or VLT, opens its four giant eyes to scrutinise the beautiful southern skies. Each eye is a huge mirror, 8.2 metres in di
• E15: Recoating a Giant VLT Mirror
• E16: E-ELT Site Chosen (2010-04-26) — On 26 April 2010, the ESO Council selected Cerro Armazones as the site for the planned 42-metre European Extremely Large Telescope. Cerro Armazones is an isolated mountain at 3060
• E17: Constructing ALMA — The World's Largest Observatory (2010-05-28) — High on the Chajnantor plateau in the Chilean Andes, the first antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array, or ALMA for short, move in unison.
• E18: Exoplanet Caught on the Move (2010-06-10) — For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves to the other side of its host star. The planet has the smallest orbit so fa
• E19: Photographers of the Night (2010-07-15) — The Sun sets behind Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Atacama desert. While astronomers get ready to observe with ESO's Very Large Telescope, Nature prepares for her own grand display.
• E20: Richest planetary system discovered (2010-08-24) — Astronomers using ESO instruments have discovered a remarkable extrasolar planetary system that has some striking similarities to our own Solar System. At least five planets are or
• E21: The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) (2010-09-27) — Today's telescopes study the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum. Each part of the spectrum tells us different things about the Universe, giving us more pieces of the cosmic ji
• E22: The most distant galaxy ever measured (2010-10-20) — A European team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far. By carefully analysing the very faint glow of the
• E23: A telescope's wire to the world (2010-11-04) — In this episode of the ESOcast, we travel to the inhospitable but dramatic landscape of the Atacama Desert. Beneath the ground there, a new high-speed data cable is helping connect
• E24: First planet of extragalactic origin (2010-11-18) — An exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our galaxy, the Milky Way, from another galaxy has been detected by a European team of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope a
• E25: Chasing Gamma Ray Bursts at Top Speed: The VLT’s Rapid Response Mode (2010-12-16) — This video podcast explains the ESO Very Large Telescope’s Rapid Response Mode, which makes it possible to observe gamma-ray bursts only a few minutes after they are first spotted.
• E26: Life and Leisure at Paranal (2011-02-01) — The barren landscape surrounding the Paranal Observatory in Chile is stunning, but for the ESO staff who work there, on-site recreational activities are important for entertainment
• E27: An ESO Astronomer at Work (2011-03-18) — Life as an ESO astronomer is demanding, but working on one of the world's most powerful telescopes is also immensely rewarding. In this episode of the ESOcast, come with us as we f
• E28: ESO Hidden Treasures Competition (2011-04-19) — The observations from ESO's powerful ground-based telescopes are veritable treasures, stored in a huge archive usually only visited by professional astronomers on a mission. And ye
• E29: Running a Desert Town (2011-05-12) — 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 t
• E30: First Images from the VLT Survey Telescope — VST and 268 megapixel OmegaCAM start work (2011-06-08) — This ESOcast introduces the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to ESO's Paranal Observatory. This new telescope has just made its first release of impressive images of
• E31: Pandora's Cluster (2011-06-22) — This joint episode of the Hubblecast and ESOcast presents Abell 2744, an unusual cluster of galaxies nicknamed "Pandora's Cluster" by the astronomers who have studied it. Looking a
• E32: Most Distant Quasar Found (2011-06-29) — This ESOcast is about the discovery of the most distant quasar found to date. This brilliant beacon is powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun. It is
• E33: Under Chilean Skies (2011-08-11) — In the pursuit of pristine skies, ESO, the European Southern Observatory, operates its telescopes far beyond Europe, in the remote and arid landscape of the Atacama Desert in Chile
• E34: How To Stop a Star's Twinkle – The astronomy podcast exploring the cosmic frontier with Dr J (2011-09-05) — We have all looked up at the sky at night and seen the stars twinkle. It may be pretty and romantic, but it is also a big problem for astronomers, as the shimmering starlight blurs
• E35: Fifty New Exoplanets (2011-09-12) — Astronomers using ESO’s leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced more than fifty newly discovered planets around other stars. Among these are many rocky planets not much
• E36: ALMA Opens Its Eyes (2011-10-03) — The most complex ground-based astronomy observatory in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released
• E37: Full-size Mock-up of World's Largest Telescope Mirror Built at ESO's Open House Day (2011-10-19) — On Saturday 15 October 2011 ESO opened the doors of its headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany, to the public. Throughout the day, thousands of visitors had the chance to he
• E38: Faraway Eris is Pluto’s twin (2011-10-26) — This ESOcast describes how astronomers have accurately measured the diameter of the faraway dwarf planet Eris for the first time by catching it as it passed in front of a faint sta
• E39: A Black Hole’s Dinner is Fast Approaching (2011-12-14) — Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered a gas cloud with several times the mass of the Earth accelerating towards the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
• E40: When Speed Matters – Discovery of the Accelerating Universe Wins 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics (2012-01-16) — In the past two decades, astronomers have made a truly revolutionary discovery: that the cosmos is not only expanding, but is doing so at an ever-faster rate. The discovery of the
• E41: Going South – Special 50th Anniversary Episode 1 (2012-03-21) — Leading up to ESO's 50th anniversary in October 2012, we are releasing eight special ESOcasts, each a chapter from the movie Europe to the Stars — ESO's First 50 Years of Explorin
• E42: Looking Up – Special 50th Anniversary Episode 2 (2012-04-19) — "Looking Up" is the second special episode of this series and ESOcast 42 overall. In it we look at how, over the past fifty years, ESO has helped to unravel some of the mysteries o
• E43: Seeing Sharp – Special 50th Anniversary Episode 3 (2012-05-10) — The third special episode of this series — ESOcast 43 overall — presents ESO’s flagship facility: the Very Large Telescope (VLT). In this episode we discover the state-of-the-art
• E44: Special: Changing Views — Special 50th anniversary episode #4 (2012-06-05) — Leading up to ESO’s 50th anniversary in October 2012, we are releasing eight special ESOcasts, each a chapter from the movie Europe to the Stars — ESO’s First 50 Years of Explorin
• E45: Reaching Out – Special 50th Anniversary Episode 5 (2012-07-03) — ESOcast 45 — Reaching Out — is the fifth special episode of this series. In it we focus on ESO's mission of curiosity, wonder and inspiration, proclaimed through cooperation and
• E46: Catching Light – Special 50th Anniversary Episode 6 (2012-08-01) — ESOcast 46 is the sixth special episode of this series. It describes how state-of-the-art cameras and spectrographs help ESO’s powerful telescopes collect and analyse the faint lig
• E47: Finding Life – Special 50th Anniversary Episode 7 (2012-09-03) — In dieser speziellen Folge – ESOcast Nr. 47 insgesamt – blicken wir auf eine der größten Herausforderungen, die Astronomen über die Jahrhunderte weiterverfolgt haben: die Suche nac
• E48: Building Big — Special 50th Anniversary Episode 8 (2012-10-02) — ESOcast 48 is the eighth special episode of this series. Die achte und letzte Episode der Serie erklärt wie die ESO – basierend auf gesammelten Erfahrungen der letzten 50 Jahre ihr
• E49: On Air – Behind the Scenes of A Day in The Life of ESO (2012-10-17) — This exciting episode of the ESOcast gives viewers an exclusive backstage pass to see what went on behind the scenes while filming the ESO live webcast “A Day in the Life of ESO”.
• E50: Chile Chill 1 (2012-11-15) — This episode of the ESOcast introduces a new type of ESOcasts called "Chile Chill". These ESOcasts offer a calm experience of the Chilean night sky and ESO's observatory sites, und
• E51: All Systems Go for Highest Altitude Supercomputer (2012-12-21) — One of the most powerful supercomputers in the world has now been fully installed and tested at its remote, high altitude site in the Andes of northern Chile. This marks one of the

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How many seasons does ESOcast have? 1 season(s) with 50 episodes.

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