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Artists’s impression of one of more than 50 new exoplanets found by HARPS: the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b	Superbubble LHA 120-N 44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud	The disturbed galactic duo NGC 3169 and NGC 3166	From One "Alien World" to Another

Crash of the Titans	Starry night at the Atacama Desert Coast	TRAPPIST First Light Image of the Spiral Galaxy Messier 83	Three ALMA antennas close together on Chajnantor

SEST at La Silla at Sunset	Assembly of a European ALMA Antenna	The Hidden Engine of NGC 4945	Transporting an Auxiliary Telescope

The Laser Guide System	NTT and ESO 3.6-metre telescopes	APEX Antenna	Atacama Pathfinder Experiment

Laser Beam Creating an “Artificial” Star	Laser Beam Creating an “Artificial” Star	APEX Antenna	Reflection Nebula around HD 87643

Material Surrounding the Black Hole Sagittarius A*	Disc Around Young Star	Planet-forming disc (Artist's Impression)	Green Flash at Paranal

The Comet and the Laser	An Artificial Star Above Paranal	Spiral Galaxy Messier 83	The Horsehead Nebula

Detail of a View Towards the Great Attractor	Protostar HH-34 in Orion	Globular Cluster NGC1916 near N119 in the Large Magellanic Cloud	Milky Way Shines over Snowy La Silla

ALMA images of gravitationally-lensed distant star-forming galaxies	Artist’s impression of eclipsing binary	PARLA laser at the VLT	PARLA laser at the VLT

ALMA and a Starry Night — a Joy to Behold	ALMA antenna	Artist’s impression of the exoplanet Tau Boötis b	Cascading Milky Way

Sun, Moon and Telescopes above the Desert	E-ELT four laser star guide	La Silla Observatory view from an airplane	Aerial close up view of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope with the 1.4-m Coudé Auxiliary Telescope

Teenage galaxies in the distant Universe	MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope with open dome	A towering VLT Unit Telescope	Paranal under Snow

Artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst shining through two young galaxies in the early Universe	Stars Dancing Above the VLT	Giant space blob glows from within	The COSMOS field