Free Astronomy Magazine March-April 2019

19 MARCH-APRIL 2019 SPACE CHRONICLES met with ESO’s Director General, Xavier Barcons, at the ESO offices in Santiago, Chile. Together with ESO’s Director for Operations, An- dreas Kaufer, and other ESO mem- bers of personnel, they signed the agreement for the construction and operation of CTA’s southern array within ESO’s Paranal site in north- ern Chile. Deputy Minister of For- eign Relations of Chile Carolina Valdivia Torres and ESO’s Director General also signed the agreement that enables ESO to host CTA-South at the Paranal Observatory site, as an ESO Programme. A third agreement was already signed on 17 December 2018 be- tween the Chilean National Com- mission for Science and Technology (CONICYT) and CTAO. This coopera- tion agreement aims at fostering E so introduces CTA, the world’s largest array of gamma-ray telescope. [ESO] astronomical research in Chile, cap- italising on the opening of a new observational window as enabled by CTA-South.