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| Eight ALMA antennas on Chajnantor* |
Shooting a Laser at the Galactic Centre |
Dramatic Moonset |
Sunset at Cerro Armazones |
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| ALMA Site |
VISTA |
Laser Guide Star Facility |
Comet Hale-Bopp |
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| Orion above the VLT |
Paranal Trail |
Paranal Observatory Under Moonlight * |
Ready for the night |
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| Paranal Platform - 2007 |
Distorted galaxy NGC 2442 |
Swedish-ESO 15m Submillimeter Telescope (SEST) |
Residencia in Paranal |
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| Messier 100 and Supernova SN 2006X |
Twin Explosions In Gigantic Dusty Potato Crisp |
Globular cluster NGC 6397 |
Spiral Galaxy NGC 300 |
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| Saturn - Lord of the rings |
The Capodimonte Deep Field |
La Silla - Evening |
Panoramic View with La Silla |
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| The Galactic Starburst Region NGC 3603 * |
An APEX view of star formation in the Orion Nebula |
Panorama of Cerro Murphy |
ALMA correlator |
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| La Silla Under the Stars |
Setting the Dark on Fire |
Artist’s impression of the surface of the dwarf planet Makemake |
Path of the shadow of Makemake as it crossed the Earth on 23 April 2011 |
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| 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 |
Artist’s impression of the planet around Alpha Centauri B |
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| 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 |
Gala Event Celebrates 50 Years of the European Southern Observatory |
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| 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 |
ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event in the Kaisersaal of the Munich Residenz in Germany |
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| The European Extremely Large Telescope (annotated) |
VLT image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1187 |
VISTA infrared image of the globular star cluster Messier 55 |
The Milky Way over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope |
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| A Dusting of Snow in the Atacama Desert |
Spinning into Action |
The smoky pink core of the Omega Nebula |
Christmas Comet Lovejoy Captured at Paranal |