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Otto Heckmann in front of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope mirror	Cooling liquid at La Silla	The pre-assembled ESO 3.6-metre telescope	The ESO 3.6-metre telescope Mirror

Bertil Lindbald, Director of the Stockholm Observatory	President Allende and the ESO Council President	La Silla Observatory in the sixties	Building the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

Building the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	A meeting at ESO's Headquarters in Garching	SLODAR Instrument at Paranal	La Silla at Night

Austrian Delegation visits Paranal	Austrian Delegation visits Paranal	The North American Antenna Integration Facility	Pandora’s Cluster — Hubble view of Abell 2744

“Caleta de Pescadores” in Antofagasta	Site Testing at Cerro Armazones	The New ALMA Santiago Central Office is handed over	A fireball in the atmosphere of Jupiter

The ESO Users Committee (May 2010)	The ESO Users Committee (May 2010)	Infrared/visible light comparison of views of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253)	A rock at the ALMA site

Flora and terrain at the ALMA site	Roque de los Muchachos Observatory at La Palma	La Silla early construction	Arriving at La Silla

Light echoes around SN 1987A	Ring-shaped nebula around SN 1987A	The star GJ1214	HARPS at La Silla

Quebrada Cross Track	APEX LABOCA	The Way to ALMA	Construction of Paranal Residencia

ALMA access	Kitchen in La Silla	La Silla	NTT M1 Mirror Cell

Small Tornado	E-ELT ASM Project	La Silla	La Silla Site Search

Kueyen ready to observe	The VLT Unit Telescopes Yepun and Melipal	First Optical Identification of an Extragalactic Pulsar	Nuno Crato Visits Paranal

Vibrant sky	The planetary nebula IC 1295 in the constellation of Scutum (The Shield)	Unit Telescope of the VLT from inside	VLT press conference