
The road to the skies

Star trails

The Auxiliary Telescope and the Moon

Star trails above Paranal

Shooting at the sky

Star trails above Paranal

Sunset over Paranal

Another clear day at Paranal

Cerro Armazones

Very large silhouette at sunset

ESO’s Very Large Telescope array

Operations Support Facility at night

Operations Support Facility

Atacama Compact Array

Icy outcrops

Moon eclipse from La Silla

Panorama of VLT and control building

PARLA laser at the VLT

Swirling stars above the VLT

Annette Schavan

The telescope, The laser and the Moon

The original site

Artist’s impression of the dwarf planet Eris

ALMA antennas

ALMA antennas

The czech president’s galaxy

Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plain

The VLTI delay lines

An ancient cluster of stars against a stunning background

The ESO VLT Yepun Telescope opening

A stellar black hole

TRAPPIST first light image of Omega Centauri

Moving ALMA antennas to the Atacama compact array pads

The cluster of galaxies Abell 315

The ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla at night

An ALMA antenna on Chajnantor

APEX, the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, on Chajnantor

VLT at Paranal

The GOODS-South field

Extracts from the VISTA infrared image of the Orion Nebula

The launch of the voices from the Universe book

Comet McNaught

Comet McNaught

VISTA

Licancabur on the way to ALMA

ALMA antennas

VLTs stretch into the distance

Paranal-Gegenschein

The Laser Guide Star on the VLT

Nebula around star cluster RCW 38

The Earth-like planet Gliese 581 c (artist's impression)

NGC 92 in H-alpha

DEM L 144 near N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Centaurus A – Field 1 (shell)

Centaurus A – Field 2 (halo)

Nebulae near the hot Wolf-Rayet star BAT99-2 in the LMC

Close-up of N44C in the LMC

Interferometric observations: fringes from two stars of different angular size

Interferometric observations: change of fringes with increasing baseline

The Orion Nebula: The jewel in the sword

UVES at KUEYEN with cover partially lifted

B68, the black cloud

ALMA image and motion of the cold gas in REBELS-25 (side-by-side)

Impresión artística del Extremely Large Telescope de ESO y las antenas del Observatorio ALMA.

Comparison of several stellar black holes in our galaxy

A flower with four petals (full field of view)

Komplikovaná spirálová struktura oblaků kolem hvězdy V960 Mon pohledem přístroje SPHERE

Vizualizace černé díry v kupě NGC 1850 deformující blízkou hvězdu

Path to the Supernova

A jewel bright cluster

Supernova at twilight

Window on the Universe

ESO Supernova Stairway

ESOshop in ESO Supernova

ESO Supernova Picnic Area

Supernova Cloakroom

Peering into the Void

Supernova Cloakroom

Starry skies in the planetarium

ESO Supernova by day

Where did you come from, where did you go?

Snímek galaxie ESO 325-G004

Rooftop panorama

You spin me right round

A spectacle of light

A home away from home

Jupiter's time to shine

The Earth from the Moon

Planetarium panorama

Stellar snacks

Vizualizace planetárního systému TRAPPIST-1

Immersive Paranal world

A panorama view of the VLT

Milky Way glow at Paranal

Lined up

Panoramic Paranal perspective

Pozorování obří sluneční skvrny pomocí ALMA (na vlnové délce 3 mm)

Pozorování velké sluneční skvrny pomocí ALMA (na vlnové délce 1,25 mm)

Night lights

Snímek protoplanetárního disku u hvězdy V883 Orionis získaný pomocí ALMA

Panorama view of ALMA

Lunar illumination

Nova Centauri 2013

Den otevřených dveří 2015 - Dlouhá noc vědy v ředitelství ESO

The Moon sets over Paranal

Sundown on the VLT

Dalekohled VISTA odhalil proměnné hvězdy skryté za mlhovinou Trifid (s popiskou)

Meet me at the stars

The most powerful telescope in the world

OSF and the Milky Way

Image from panoramic webcam at Paranal

The Milky Way over ALMA

The Milky Way over UT4

ALMA's cool Universe

Rosettina kometa se probouzí

Složený snímek pozůstatků po explozi supernovy SN 1987A

PARLA laser at the VLT

Sunset panorama at the VLT

ESO’s Paranal Observatory by night

The Very Large Telescope

ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla Observatory

Challenging journeys

ALMA antennas

ALMA antenna on a transporter

ALMA antennas

The occultation of the dwarf planet Eris in November 2010

Unrecognisable Paranal Residencia

Twilight at Cerro Armazones

Wide-angle view of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

Garden and swimming pool at the Paranal Residencia

Twilight at Paranal

360° panorama of the VLT platform at sunset

Dramatic moonset

La Silla Observatory

Star factories in the distant Universe (artist’s impression)

Behind the scenes of around the world in 80 telescopes

VLT test camera in integration lab

VLTI tunnel

The Paranal observing platform in Chile

Chajnantor - the site for ALMA

ELT in its enclosure

Penitentes ice formations

Trumpler 14 in the Carina Nebula

The star cluster Terzan 5

Artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst

Comet McNaught

Planetary system around HD 69830

Star ejected from the Large Magellanic Cloud (artist''s view)

DEM L 159 nebula and KMHK 840 and 831 star clusters in the LMC

M100 / NGC 4321

Interferometric tunnel

The VLT images a "rectangular" planetary nebula

Artist's Impression of the ELT: A Sharp Eye on the Sky

New planetary-mass object found in quadruple system (unlabelled)

Odrazový můstek do Vesmíru

A bird's-eye view of the ELT construction site

The ELT's dome under construction

A sky-high view of the ELT's construction site

The ELT construction site from above

Outlines of the ELT on Cerro Armazones

Scaffolding at the ELT site

Ilustrace planety Proxima d

A black hole caught blowing a gust

Představa toulavé planety v oblasti Rho Ophiuchi

Slabá rudá záře toulavých planet

Srovnání velikosti planetky Kleopatra s Chile

Galaxie NGC 1300 na snímku VLT/MUSE v různých vlnových délkách

Galaxie NGC 4254 na snímku VLT/MUSE v různých vlnových délkách

Galaxie NGC 1087 na snímku VLT/MUSE v různých vlnových délkách

Galaxie NGC 3267 na snímku VLT/MUSE a ALMA v různých vlnových délkách

Galaxie NGC 1087 na snímku VLT/MUSE a ALMA v různých vlnových délkách

Galaxie NGC 4303 na snímku VLT/MUSE a ALMA v různých vlnových délkách

Galaxie NGC 4254 na snímku VLT/MUSE a ALMA v různých vlnových délkách

Galaxie NGC 3627 na snímku VLT/MUSE v různých vlnových délkách

Galaxie NGC 1300 na snímku VLT/MUSE a ALMA v různých vlnových délkách

Home of a Planet Hunter

The centre of the Toby Jug Nebula

První snímek multi-planetárního systému kolem hvězdy podobné Slunci

What's on the horizon?

Pás úplného zatmění Slunce 2019

Starstruck

Pozorování planetky 1999 KW4 pomocí SPHERE

Eyes on the Milky Way

Umělecká představa černé díry v centru M87

Hvězda HR 8799 v souhvězdí Pegas

Party rings

Around the world in 80 seconds

A sky full(dome) of stars

Flying the flag

Pre-opening celebrations

SPHERE – disk kolem hvězdy GSC 07396-00759

ESON at a fulldome show

VLT Auxiliary Telescope silhouette

ALMA at the end of the rainbow

Sunset behind the Paranal telescopes

Sunset with Paranal on the distance

ESO’s Very Large Telescope array

Road to Cerro Armazones

Panorama at the entrance of Paranal

Panorama of the entrance to the Residencia

Panorama at the entrance of La Residencia

Cerro Paranal Panorama

Paranal Basecamp at dawn