The European Southern Observatory has (not before time) redesigned its website. Among the changes are a new tagline: Astronomy made in Europe. Now I know that a lot of ESO’s astronomy gets done in Garching in Germany, and plenty more at people’s home institutions, but the really cool stuff that ESO does gets done at its observatories in Chile. And in this postcolonial world, that is not Europe, no matter how regularly Kaffee und Kuchen is served at the ESO Guesthouse.


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