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Image Archive: Paranal


The Paranal-Armazones area	Sunset at Paranal Observatory	From Antu to Yepun (The historical image)	From Antu to Yepun (The present-day image)

Building the Paranal Residencia — From Turbulence to Tranquility (historical image)	Building the Paranal Residencia — From Turbulence to Tranquility (present day image)	Laser Guide Star Sweeps Across a Starry Sky	From a Dirt Track to the World’s Leading Observatory (Historical)

From a Dirt Track to the World’s Leading Observatory (Present)	From a Dirt Track to the World’s Leading Observatory (side-by-side composite)	Melipal — the VLT Unit Telescope 3	Boldly going up Cerro Paranal

Llullaillaco, Clear as Day	The VLT’s Next-generation Laser Launch Telescope	All Four VLT Unit Telescopes Working as One	Red Moon Rising

Very Large Telescope Ready for Action	Up Close and Personal with the Very Large Telescope	The 2010 Perseids over the VLT	Building Connections with EVALSO

On the road to Armazones	Paranal’s Telescopes in the Distance	A view of Paranal at sunset from Armazones	A VLT Unit

Comet McNaught over Paranal	Star trails over VLT	High Power Laser test of VLT 4LGSF Laser Launch Telecope	Transporting an Auxiliary Telescope

KUEYEN Structure	ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) Array Now in Google Earth	Preparing for the Observations	Reinstallation of the Mirrors

FORS1 and FORS2 at ANTU and KUEYEN	VLT at night	360° Panorama of the VLT Platform	Icy lagoon near Paranal

AT4 at dawn on Paranal	ISAAC mounted at ANTU	Panorama of VLT and control building	PARLA laser at the VLT

PARLA laser at the VLT	Annette Schavan	The Telescope, The Laser and the Moon	Galactic backlighting

Opening UT1	The VLTI Delay Lines	The ESO VLT Yepun Telescope Opening	VLT at Paranal

Comet McNaught	FLAMES at the VLT	VLTs Stretch Into the Distance	Paranal-Gegenschein