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The Hidden Engine of NGC 4945	The Laser Guide System	NTT and ESO 3.6-metre telescopes	APEX Antenna

Atacama Pathfinder Experiment	APEX Antenna	Material Surrounding the Black Hole Sagittarius A*	Green Flash at Paranal

Detail of a View Towards the Great Attractor	Protostar HH-34 in Orion	Milky Way Shines over Snowy La Silla	ALMA images of gravitationally-lensed distant star-forming galaxies

Artist’s impression of eclipsing binary	PARLA laser at the VLT	PARLA laser at the VLT	ALMA and a Starry Night — a Joy to Behold

ALMA antenna	Artist’s impression of the exoplanet Tau Boötis b	Cascading Milky Way	Sun, Moon and Telescopes above the Desert

E-ELT four laser star guide	La Silla Observatory view from an airplane	Aerial close up view of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope with the 1.4-m Coudé Auxiliary Telescope	Teenage galaxies in the distant Universe

MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope with open dome	A towering VLT Unit Telescope	Paranal under Snow	Artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst shining through two young galaxies in the early Universe

Stars Dancing Above the VLT	Giant space blob glows from within	The COSMOS field	Pandora’s Cluster (VLT view)

Planetary Conjunction over Paranal	Supermoon over ESO's Very Large Telescope	ALMA Antennas Stand Together	A Galactic Petri Dish

The Long and Winding Road*	A disc around a massive baby star (artist's impression)	The Blinking Galaxy	An infrared/visible comparison view of Messier 83

The sky around Messier 83	Inside the VLT	ALMA antennas at OSF	3.6-metre telescope at La Silla

Chance discovery reveals star factories in the distant Universe	Night falling over Paranal	Comet McNaught, the Moon, Venus and the VLT	ALMA antennas and OSF at sunset

A VLT Unit Telescope and the Moon	The Trifid Nebula (full frame)	Comet McNaught and ATs	The Comet and the Telescopes