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Detail of Star-forming Region RCW 108 in Ara	Wings for Science Fly Over ALMA	ALMA Pinpoints Early Galaxies	Laser Guide Star Trails

APEX's Icy Companions	Close-up view of NGC 6357	Cerro Armazones at dawn	La Silla and surroundings

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star	Artist’s impression of the dwarf planet Eris	The E-ELT on Cerro Armazones (artist's impression)	The AEM antenna 2

Hidden Treasure on Our Doorstep	Panoramic View from Paranal	The Glow of the Lagoon Nebula	The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies

VLT Unit Telescopes	X-SHOOTER Signature in Copenhagen	Comet West, March 1976	ALMA antennas

VLT Unit Telescopes Under a Starry Sky	Antennas for ALMA at the Antenna Test Facility (ATF)	Supernova Remnant NGC 2060	Star cluster RCW 38

One Auxiliary Telescope Under the Sky	Messier 83 - Central region	The star formation region NGC 6559	La Silla Ridge

ESO's VLT images the planetary nebula IC 1295	Young stars in the open star cluster NGC 2547	SEST at La Silla	Off the shoulder of Orion

La Silla under the Milky Way	VLT/VIMOS observations of the shock front in the remnant of the supernova SN 1006	Swirling Star Trails Over Yepun	The Stars Streak Overhead

The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)	The radio galaxy Centaurus A, as seen by ALMA	Comet Lovejoy over Santiago	VISTA stares deep into the cosmos

ALMA antenna transported to Chajnantor	Two Auxiliary Telescopes	The Chilean Night Sky from ALMA	Wide-field view of NGC 253 from the VLT Survey Telescope

The E-ELT at sunset (artist’s impression)	Wide-field view of the COSMOS field	Wide-field view of the sky around the most remote quasar	The flames of Betelgeuse

Wide-field view of the Meathook Galaxy	Bridging the Abyss	Aerial View of the VLT	Three ALMA antennas close together on Chajnantor