ESO Supernova is the world's first open source planetarium and likes to share. The materials that ESO develops for ESO Supernova is available to other planetariums, who can freely download it and use it under a Creative Commons free license:

ESO Supernova material, images and videos, along with the texts of press releases, announcements, photo captions, are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Attribution or NoDerivatives licenses and may, on a non-exclusive basis, be reproduced without fee provided they are clearly and visibly credited. For more details and a list of Q&A on licensing please visit this page.

Don’t forget that your shop can earn up to 80% profit from reselling ESO products when placing wholesale bulk orders with us. See last page in the ESOshop Catalogue.

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Material for science centres

Exhibition panels: Fully layouted, available as pdf and InDesign file.



Exhibition panels: In html format, available in English and German.



Kiosk Apps: Working on any PC with a screen and Chrome browser connected to the internet; bilingual in German and English.



High-resolution exhibition images, all under CC (up to 50,000 pixels width)

Videos, animations and vodcasts (up to UHD resolution)

VR movies: can be used with Virtual Reality (VR) glasses like Zeiss VR One, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive or Google Cardboard.



ESO Virtual Tours incl. tours in VR.

Source code repositories for interactive applications developed by the Heidelberger Institute for Theoretical Studies

ALMA and Paranal webcams in 4k resolution, fish-eye. The refresh rate is roughly once an hour.

Planetarium material

ALMA and Paranal webcams in 4k resolution, fish-eye. The refresh rate is roughly once an hour.

The Data2Dome project: Also see the IPS Data to Dome pages.

Planetarium community white papers

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