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Wide-field view of the sky around the remote cluster CL J1449+0856	Wide-field view of the field around NGC 7252: the Atoms-for-Peace galaxy	Extracts from the VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey view of the Tarantula Nebula	Opening VISTA

Filming at Paranal	Big and Bigger Telescopes	E-ELT Active Segmented Mirror	Paranal Liquid Nitrogen Facility

ALMA Antenna Docking Pad	The ALMA Array - 3D Rendering	The two ALMA antennas	The Merging System Arp 220

A Rotating Giant Cloud around An Infant Galaxy	Giacconi	Adaptive Optics at Play	VLT Auxiliary Telescopes

Assembly of the ESO 1-metre telescope	Gully at ALMA site	Media interviews during ESO's VLT first light press conference	Journalist at ESO's VLT first light press conference

Guests at the ALMA inauguration on a transporter	50 Years of ESO - Group Photo	Students at ESO headquarters in Garching	Part of the supernova remnant SN 1006 seen with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

The green bean galaxy J2240 (annotated)	EIROforum General Assembly 2012	Book cover "The Jewel on the Mountaintop"	Hot and brilliant O stars in star-forming regions

An Oasis for Astronomers (side-by-side composite)	VLTI tunnel	VLTI tunnel	ALMA antenna in the desert

Poster of Café & Kosmos 12 June 2012	Screenshot of ESOcast 44	OmegaCam on the VST	Staff Quarters at La Silla

Farewell at Pelicano	Reception at the Guesthouse	Inauguration of the Pelicano Airstrip	The Sky Atlas Laboratory at CERN

Pioneering Astronomical Watch Launched at ESO’s Paranal Observatory	SLODAR Instrument at Paranal	Lore in Training	A Muse for the VLT

South America Map ESO	Wide Field Imager image of Westerlund 1 (annotated)	Construction of ALMA	Cerro Armazones at night

Cerro Armazones at night	Cerro Armazones at night	E-ELT site testing — Cerro Tolonchar / Chile	E-ELT site testing - Cerro Macon / Argentina