
The crescent Moon and earthshine over ESO's Paranal Observatory

VFTS 102: the fastest rotating star

Een opname van de vreemde planetoïde Lutetia vanaf de ruimtesonde Rosetta van ESA

GRAAL on a quest to improve HAWK-I's vision

VISTA view of the newly discovered globular cluster VVV CL001 and its brighter companion

Artist’s impression of galaxies at the end of the era of reionisation (artist’s impression)

Council Room at the ESO Headquarters

Council room at the ESO Headquarters

Artists’s impression of one of more than 50 new exoplanets found by HARPS: the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b

Overzichtsfoto van de hemel rond een reusachtige kosmische gaswolk

The most distant quasar

The ELT (artist's impression)

Night begins at Paranal Observatory

Beta Pictoris b (artist’s impression)

Cerro Armazones night-time panorama*

VLT Unit and Auxiliary Telescope at Paranal

SEST at La Silla

An ALMA antenna on Chajnantor*

Details of the VISTA Flame Nebula image

Transporting an Auxiliary Telescope

Evening view of Paranal and the VLT

Road to La Silla

Group portrait of the VLT with laser beam

Road to La Silla

La Silla telescopes in twilight

Comet McNaught over the VLT platform

ESO 3.6-metre telescope – the dome

Zodiacal light at Paranal

Cosmic interactions

Dust cloud in a R CrB star (artist's impression)

Jets from a brown dwarf (artist's impression)

The inner winds of Eta Carinae

A cometary "aurora" at Paranal

VLT Auxiliary Telescope

Asymmetric ashes (artist's impression)

The APEX Telescope

New brown dwarf in the solar neighbourhood (artist's impression)

Paranal observing platform with AT1 and AT2

Mare Humorum

East of Sinus Iridum

A Koi-smic fish

A supercomputer's home in the Chajnantor Plateau

Artist’s impression van het stersysteem met het zwaarste stellaire zwarte gat in ons Melkwegstelsel

Being ExTrA: how to find Earth-like planets

A futuristic transporter

Water in de schijf van HL Tauri

All alone in the desert

A view from inside the ELT dome

Aerial image of the VLT

De Spinnenweb-protocluster

Venus over the BlackGEM telescopes (annotated)

Pillar of sunlight over ALMA

Lunar light over Paranal

Closest pair of supermassive black holes as seen by MUSE

De eerste twee foto’s van zwarte gaten naast elkaar

Planetoïde Kleopatra vanuit verschillende hoeken gezien

NGC 4303 op verschillende golflengten, zoals waargenomen met het MUSE-instrument van ESO’s VLT

Paranal Observatory at dusk

Het oppervlak van Betelgeuze voor en na zijn Grote Verduistering van 2019/2020 (met tekst)

Artist’s impression van een ster die uit elkaar wordt getrokken door een superzwaar zwart gat

Atacama nights

Bollen boven bollen

Hemelgebieden die het meest worden aangetast door satellietconstellaties

Artist’s impression van het WDJ0914+1914-stelsel

Eerste licht voor het SPECULOOS Southern Observatory

Een fulldome-familieportret

Het hart van de Melkweg

De kleuren van Antu

Een planetenjager en zijn buur

Cluster MACS J1149.5+2223

Hubble/ALMA-opname van MACS J1149.5+2223

Learn about the ELT

ESON members watch a show at the ESO Supernova

ESON members visit the Universe at the ESO Supernova

The ELT theme in The Living Universe

De helderheid van Venus

De NTT en daarbuiten

De omloopbanen van drie sterren nabij het galactisch centrum

Stervormingswolken in NGC 6822

Computersimulatie van een Lyman-alpha blob

View above the Swedish/ESO Submillimetre Telescope

Daytime perspective of La Silla

Elektra: een nieuwe driedubbele planetoïde

Venus en de maan gaan er voor staan

The VLT four laser guide stars

Artist’s impression van de heldere vlekken op Ceres, die door de ruimtesonde Dawn zijn ontdekt

Hoog en droog

De protoplanetaire schijf ‘Vliegende Schotel’ rond de ster 2MASS J16281370-2431391

The Vitacura Guesthouse

Röntgenopname van het XXL-South-veld

VLT-opname van de omgeving van VY Canis Majoris, zoals gezien met SPHERE

ALMA is getuige van vorming sterrenstelsel in het jonge heelal (met tekst)

ALMA is getuige van vorming sterrenstelsel in het jonge heelal

Het hart van Mira A en zijn partner

Artist’s impression van het dubbelstersysteem GG Tauri-A

The little planet of the ESO Headquarters

A dwarf among giants

The Geyser El Tatio

Three little helpers

A lonely Auxiliary Telescope

VLT volgt Rosetta's komeet

VLT silhouettes

The Milky Way over Cerro Paranal

Colourful VLT panorama

De rondingen van ESO's hoofdkwartier

Very large silhouette at sunset

A site with a view

Spot the difference

Warehouses at Paranal

View inside a VLT Unit Telescope

Panoramic view inside the dome

Het testen van een superdunne spiegel bij ESO

De bolvormige sterrenhoop NGC 6388, waargenomen door de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht

Star trails over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

Twee planetenjagers betrapt op La Silla

The ESO 1.52-metre telescope

Getting the VLT ready for even sharper images

Kosmische stofwolken in Messier 78

Artist’s impression van de verwachte verdeling van donkere materie om de Melkweg

ALMA bekijkt de ring rond heldere ster Fomalhaut

Architectonische weergave van de uitbreiding van het ESO-hoofdkwartier (’s nachts)

The VLT goes lion hunting

Alignment of the VLTI

ALMA antennas

Starry skies above La Silla

First 7-metre ALMA antenna arrives at Chajnantor

Galactic bridge between Kueyen and Melipal

Hiding in plain sight — the elusive Carina dwarf galaxy

A blood Moon over ESO’s Headquarters

By the light of the Moon

The VLT Survey Telescope observing on a moonlit night

OmegaCAM, the monster camera of the VLT Survey Telescope

A new era for astronomy

Monuments of science*

IRAS 13481-6124 and its cradle

Planet around Beta Pictoris

Moving ALMA antennas to the Atacama Compact Array pads

An infrared/visible comparison view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula

VLT telescopes at Paranal

VLT Auxiliary Telescope at Paranal at sunset

NTT at La Silla

La Silla telescope ring

An ALMA antenna on Chajnantor

Moonlit panorama at La Silla

Moonlit panorama at La Silla

Moonlit panorama at La Silla

APEX image calendar, July 2010 — APEX Chajnantor Facilities seen from Cerro Chajnantor

The Moon in conjunction with Venus and Jupiter (artistic composition)

SEST and control

La Silla Observatory

APEX

Paranal in Atacama desert

Mount Paranal

VLT Auxiliary Telescope *

Very Large Telescope

Wide angle view of APEX antenna

Comet McNaught

Telescopes at La Silla

VLT platform

Paranal Observatory – instruments

VLT

Chajnantor plateau, APEX and ALMA AOS

A trio of super-Earths (artist's impression)

SN 2006X, before and after the Type Ia Supernova explosion (artist's impression)

The ALMA prototype antennas

Larger field around NGC 1313

The Be star Alpha Arae (artist's impression)

The Alcatel Alenia Space/ European Industrial Engineering prototype antenna

ALMA prototype antenna VertexRSI on the ATF Test Site at VLA (New Mexico, USA)

In Tarantula territory (c)

Barred galaxy NGC 1365

Not too close encounters of the galactic kind

The NGC3640 galaxy group

The framework for greatness

A colourful view of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) and its multiple tails

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) wagging its tail

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) setting at Paranal Observatory

Revealing a filament from the cosmic web

New laser-sharp vision for Paranal’s facilities

Testing the new Paranal lasers

Testing the new Paranal lasers

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Perfectly framed

Mushroom-like telescopes capture cosmic signals

Under a blanket of snow

What’s in a nebula’s name?

Science and Nature at the ELT

The ELT, step by step

The cranes of the ELT

The ELT's skeleton

Supporting the ELT's main mirror

Looking into the dome of the ELT

ELT: A rising giant

Bird's-eye view of the ELT

Biggest eye on the sky - the ELT

Journey to the Center of the ELT

A base for a tower for the mirrors of the ELT

A new perspective on scaffolding

A Milky Way for dinner?

A tower for a kingdom of mirrors

Locatie van de ster WOH G64 in de Grote Magelhaense Wolk

Foto van de ster WOH G64, gemaakt met de VLTI

Foto van de ster WOH G64 naast een artistieke reconstructie

Capturing the cosmos with laser-sharp precision

Antennas in disguise

The NTT stands guard

The NGC 1386 galaxy as seen by the VLT Survey Telescope

The NGC 1386 galaxy as seen by the VLT Survey Telescope and ALMA

The NGC 1386 galaxy as seen by ALMA

A galactic rejuvenation

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS meets the ESO Supernova

Southern Cross above ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla

The emu in the sky

Fireworks of newborn stars

The Moon under another light

Unexpected neighbours

Growing every day

Lost in a giant stellar nursery

Overzichtsfoto van het hemelgebied rond de ster R Doradus

Detailrijke beelden van het oppervlak van de ster R Doradus

Detailrijke beelden van het oppervlak van de ster R Doradus (zonder annotatie)

The Hydra I cluster

An astrophysical robbery

Honey, I shrunk the Very Large Telescope

Hunting sunsets and exoplanets

How to find newborn stars

Searching for smoke after the fire

The M1 cell inside of the ELT dome

Pieces of the ELT’s M1 cell

Artist’s impression: het zwarte gat in het centrum van het sterrenstelsel SDSS1335+0728 ontwaakt

Teardrops in the sky

BlackGEM searching for cosmic jewelry

Planeet-vormende schijven in drie wolken binnen ons Melkwegstelsel

Artist’s impression van WD 0816-310, een magnetische witte dwerg met een metalen litteken