The ESO press conference will start at 1 PM Central European Time
(CET), which is 1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT. ESO Director General Tim De Zeeuw will open the press converence at its headquarters in Garching near Munich, Germany. The European Southern Observatory is a 16-nation intergovernmental research organisation for ground-based astronomy. Created in 1962, ESO has provided astronomers with state-of-the-art research facilities and access to the southern sky. See: ESO.

Artist’s impression of the Earth-like exoplanet (upper right) discovered
orbiting Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf that the ESO has been studying
with the La Silla Observatory’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher
(HARPS) for years. Proxima Centauri has two other star companions: Alpha
Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B. Illustration by ESO, European Southern Observatory.