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Preparing explosives during La Silla construction	Groningen Conference, 1953	The 1-m Active Mirror Experiment	Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission, Anne Glover, visits ESO’s Paranal Observatory

Austrian and Portuguese Ministers for Science visit Paranal	The Prime Minister of France, Jean-Marc Ayrault, and Massimo Tarenghi at the CELAC–EU Summit in Santiago	The CERN Complex near Geneva	The ESA Seeker autonomous rover during tests at Paranal

Danish 0.5-metre telescope	In the observer's seat of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope	The La Silla baby football tournament

Photometer on the ESO 1-metre Telescope	The La Silla aluminising plant in 1969	La Silla Post Stamp in Chile	Harry Van Der Laan, ESO Director General

ALMA transporter	ESO Open House Day 2011	A. Behr	ESO 3.6-metre Telescope model

Three telescopes at La Silla	First light for the Grand Prisme Objectif telescope	Construction of ESO Headquarters in Santiago, Chile begins.	Dedication ceremony for the road to the summit of La Silla.

Working on the High Order Testbench	ESO stand at the itinerant exhibition FIESMA 2010	Map of the ESO Science Outreach Network	The ESA/Hubble Top 100 Images iPad App Screenshot

The ALMA Camp	Hubble with spectra from the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility	Supernova 1992C	ALMA Santiago Central Offices (SCO)

Digitized Sky Survey Image of NGC 253	Digitized Sky Survey Image of Betelgeuse	A Window to the Universe	Top 10 ESO science discoveries

Atmospheric opacity graph	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope	The ESO 1-metre telescope at La Silla	The ESO 1-metre telescope arrival

The arrival of the ESO 1-metre telescope	The arrival of the ESO 1-metre telescope	OmegaCAM	NaCo

ALMA Signatures	OmegaCAM	ISAAC	Paranal Control Room

The Second ESO Fellows Symposium	Astro-Expo Event in Dublin	MAD	Science Day 2006