Images. Eso1102 - ESO’s Hidden Treasures Brought to Light. Eso1102 — Organisation Release 12 January 2011 ESO’s Hidden Treasures 2010 astrophotography competition attracted nearly 100 entries, and ESO is delighted to announce the winners. Hidden Treasures gave amateur astronomers the opportunity to search ESO’s vast archives of astronomical data for a well-hidden cosmic gem. Astronomy enthusiast Igor Chekalin from Russia won the first prize in this difficult but rewarding challenge — the trip of a lifetime to ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal, Chile. The pictures of the Universe that can be seen in ESO’s releases are impressive. However, many hours of skilful work are required to assemble the raw greyscale data captured by the telescopes into these colourful images, correcting them for distortions and unwanted signatures of the instrument, and enhancing them so as to bring out the details contained in the astronomical data.
The ten winners of the competition are: The ten winners submitted the twenty highest ranked images: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Virtual Tours. Cassini-Huygens. Multimedia Gallery - Salt in Enceladus. Hubblecast 42: Hubble's Greatest Hits. What makes a scientific discovery really important? It's partly down to how much scientists use the discovery in subsequent work -- but it’s also partly down to what inspires their imagination.
In this episode, the Hubblecast talks to some leading astronomers about their favourite Hubble discovery. Meanwhile, our presenter, Dr J, struggles to make up his mind. Credit: ESA/Hubble Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser Filming: Herbert Zodet Animations: Martin Kornmesser and Luis Calçada Web and technical support: Lars Holm Nielsen and Raquel Yumi Shida Written by: Oli Usher Interviews by: Oli Usher Presented by: Joe Liske (Dr J) Music: movetwo Directed by: Oli Usher Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen About the Video About the Object Subtitles Also see our.