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Three ALMA antennas close together on Chajnantor	SEST at La Silla at Sunset	The Hidden Engine of NGC 4945	The Laser Guide System

NTT and ESO 3.6-metre telescopes	APEX Antenna	Atacama Pathfinder Experiment	APEX Antenna

Material Surrounding the Black Hole Sagittarius A*	Green Flash at Paranal	Detail of a View Towards the Great Attractor	Protostar HH-34 in Orion

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	Pandora’s Cluster (VLT view)	Planetary Conjunction over Paranal	Supermoon over ESO's Very Large Telescope

ALMA Antennas Stand Together	A Galactic Petri Dish	The Long and Winding Road*	A disc around a massive baby star (artist's impression)

The Blinking Galaxy	An infrared/visible comparison view of Messier 83	The sky around Messier 83	Inside the VLT

ALMA antennas at OSF	3.6-metre telescope at La Silla	Chance discovery reveals star factories in the distant Universe	Night falling over Paranal

Comet McNaught, the Moon, Venus and the VLT	ALMA antennas and OSF at sunset	A VLT Unit Telescope and the Moon	The Trifid Nebula (full frame)