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| The classic spiral Messier 83 seen in the infrared with HAWK-I |
Cerro Armazones at Sunset |
The ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla |
Chajnantor panorama |
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| Chajnantor Sunrise Panorama 2007 * |
Paranal Platform |
A 360 degree panorama of a unique cloudscape over La Silla * |
Radio Galaxy Centaurus A |
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| Celestial scribbled notes |
La Silla Under the Stars |
Aerial View of Cerro Paranal |
Moon rise at the Very Large Telescope |
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| APEX image of a star-forming filament in Taurus |
The “Little World” of Paranal |
An artist’s rendering of the most distant quasar |
Launching a Star |
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| Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plain |
The VLT “Venus” and the Belt of Venus |
Eight ALMA antennas on Chajnantor* |
Shooting a Laser at the Galactic Centre |
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| Dramatic Moonset |
Sunset at Cerro Armazones |
ALMA Site |
VISTA |
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| Laser Guide Star Facility |
Comet Hale-Bopp |
Paranal Trail |
Ready for the night |
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| Paranal Platform - 2007 |
Residencia in Paranal |
Twin Explosions In Gigantic Dusty Potato Crisp |
Globular cluster NGC 6397 |
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| Spiral Galaxy NGC 300 |
Saturn - Lord of the rings |
An APEX view of star formation in the Orion Nebula |
Panorama of Cerro Murphy |
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| ALMA correlator |
La Silla Under the Stars |
Setting the Dark on Fire |
Artist’s impression of the surface of the dwarf planet Makemake |
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| Path of the shadow of Makemake as it crossed the Earth on 23 April 2011 |
One Picture, Many Stories |
The planetary nebula Fleming 1 seen with ESO’s Very Large Telescope |
Wide-field view of the sky around the planetary nebula Fleming 1 |
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| Artist’s impression of the planet around Alpha Centauri B |
Artist’s impression of the planet around Alpha Centauri B (Annotated) |
The bright star Alpha Centauri and its surroundings |
From Cosmic Spare Tyre to Ethereal Blossom |
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| Gala Event Celebrates 50 Years of the European Southern Observatory |
Brian Schmidt at ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event |
Tim de Zeeuw at ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event |
Signing of a prototype mirror segment for the E-ELT, to mark ESO’s 50th Anniversary |