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ESO's New Technology Telescope	SN 1987A and the Honeycomb Nebula	The Centre of the Active Galaxy NGC 1097	Spiral Galaxy NGC 6118

Chandra Deep Field South	How to Become a Star	Dome of Swiss 1.2-m Leonhard Euler Telescope	A Paranal Sunset

Panorama of Paranal	ALMA correlator	Red alert	The Comet and the Laser

Paranal and the Shadow of the Earth	KMOS on the Very Large Telescope at the time of first light	Dark galaxies spotted for the first time	Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope

Christmas Comet Lovejoy Captured at Paranal	Simulation of gas cloud after close approach to the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way	Paranal Submerges into Sunset	NGC 6188

A Galactic Embrace	A VLT Auxiliary Telescope and Cerro Armazones	The star cluster and nebula NGC 371	The coolest pair of brown dwarfs

The first ALMA antennas on Chajnantor	Artist’s impression of the magnetar in the extraordinary star cluster Westerlund 1	The material around SN 1987A (artist’s impression)	Wide field view of the R Coronae Australis region

The Oddest Member of the Leo Triplet	La Silla Telescope Ring	Evening view of Paranal and the VLT	SEST in the Evening

Moonlit La Silla	SEST at Night	An ALMA antenna en route to the plateau of Chajnantor for the first time	The Centre of the Milky Way

A binary black hole	A Cometary Show	Tarantula's Central Cluster, R136	Cosmic Spider: The Tarantula Nebula

Sky above Paranal	Robert's Quartet	Filaments in Tarantula	The Central Area of the Tarantula Nebula

Detail of Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945	Inside the Mirror Maintenance Building	Mirror handling platform	Artist’s impression of the huge outflow ejected from the quasar SDSS J1106+1939

ALMA antenna at Chajnantor	VST image of the Hercules galaxy cluster	A Shadow at Sunrise	Artists’s impression of one of more than 50 new exoplanets found by HARPS: the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b