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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	ALMA Site (artist's impression)	Artist’s impression of Corot-9b

Darth Vader’s Galaxy, NGC 936	LMC Snapped by Schmidt Telescope	VLT Platform	The Paranal Observatory

The Moon over one VLT Auxiliary Telescope	The Milky Way Shines on Paranal	NTT Windscreen	The Globular Cluster Omega Centauri*

Chandra Deep Field South	How to Become a Star	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 at Night	An ALMA antenna en route to the plateau of Chajnantor for the first time	The Centre of the Milky Way

A Cometary Show	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