The European Southern Observatory is an astronomical research organisation.

ESO may also refer to:

  • Employee stock option (also: executive stock option)
  • Ether Saga Odyssey, a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game
  • The Elder Scrolls Online, a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game
  • Existential second-order logic
  • ESO (motorcycles)
  • Eso (town), Orhionmwon, Edo State, Nigeria

Organisations

  • European Standardisation Organisations: CEN (European Committee for Standardization), CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation) and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)
  • Ensemble Studios Online
  • Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
  • Energijos skirstymo operatorius (ESO), Lithuanian electricity transmission network operator
  • Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, an orchestra in Taiwan
  • Eteläsuomalainen osakunta, a student nation at the University of Helsinki
  • Libyan External Security Organisation
  • External Security Organisation, the Ugandan external secret service
  • École secondaire d'Oka, a public high school in Oka, Quebec, Canada
  • National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), British electricity transmission network operator

Music

  • English Symphony Orchestra and English String Orchestra, two related classical orchestral ensembles
  • Eso-Charis, Christian metal band (and self-titled album)
  • Bliss n Eso, Australian hip hop group

See also

  • Esō, also known as Hyechong, a Korean priest who transmitted Buddhism to Japan