* Astronomy

ESO, the European Southern Observatory, will host two press events during the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (JENAM 2009) that takes place at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. The two events are scheduled for the morning of Tuesday 21 April 2009.
At 11:00 BST, a press conference will highlight a major and truly unique discovery in the field of exoplanets, made possible with ESO telescopes.
From 11:30 BST until 13:30 BST, a special writer's workshop will be dedicated to the future 42-metre European Extremely Large Telescope, which will become "The World's Biggest Eye on the Sky". Science writers will be updated by the key players on the status of this amazing project, which has gained wide support in the scientific community, and whose go-ahead for construction is expected in 2010.

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