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VLT site testing	Finance Committee Visits Chile	Components of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	Highlights of VISTA’s deep infrared view of the COSMOS field

Hans-Emil Schuster	ESO 1-metre Schmidt Telescope	ESO Vitacura Offices in 1969	The ESO 3.6-metre telescope building under construction

Contract signing between ESO and Interbeton	Life at La Silla Observatory in 1969	Prince Philippe of Belgium	A lateral view of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope model

Wide-field view of the Hercules galaxy cluster	Wide-field image of the sky around the Fried Egg nebula	Rare storm over Paranal	Wide-field view of the sky around NGC 3169 and NGC 3166

“La Portada” in Antofagasta	The Coast of Antofagasta	Hubble infrared image of the most remote mature cluster of galaxies yet found	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

Atacama Shadows	View of La Silla	ALMA and VLT image of comet factory around Oph-IRS 48	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