Supernova Planetarium hints at shows to come
ESO Supernova opening — a new supernova over Munich
ESO Supernova opening — a new supernova over Munich
Our Solar System
Stars are overhead
The beginning of a journey across the Universe
Fun with lenses
Solar System weights
Why do we study the Universe?
There's a Hubble overhead
Homemade telescope
Multi-level exhibition path
A view of the Void
Make your own telescope in the Void
What is the ELT?
Bright arc over the ESO Supernova
ALMA replica model on display
Bright halo over the ESO Supernova
ESO Supernova exhibitions
ESO Supernova at sunset
Reaching Chile through the ESO Supernova
Ready and waiting
A walk inside the ESO Supernova
Stellar view in the ESO Supernova planetarium
Star trails over La Silla
Sunset palette in the skies above La Silla
Cerro Armazones
Perfect pairs
A sundog in tke sky
Night sky view over Licancabur
Moonrise over Cerro Armazones
Milky Way hangs above Paranal
Glistening band of the Milky Way over Paranal
Mars above the Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope
ALMA antennas
Lightning over Paranal
Antennae in the night
Milky Way at La Silla
VLT at sunset
Aerial view of ALMA
The 25cm TAROT telescope
Look!
Star trails over VLT
High power taser test of VLT 4LGSF laser launch telecope
ALMA antenna on a Lore transporter
Artists’s impression of one of more than 50 new exoplanets found by HARPS: the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b
European ALMA antenna brings total on Chajnantor to 16
Fish-eye view of the Southern Sky
Dramatic sunset over the ALMA OSF
The large, flat Chajnantor plateau
The disc around IRAS 13481-6124
Comet McNaught
Comet McNaught
Comet McNaught
Transporting an Auxiliary Telescope
The Milky Way and constellations
La Silla control room
La Silla sunset
KUEYEN structure
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) array now in Google Earth
The Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope — VISTA
The orbit of Theta1 Orionis C
The starburst galaxy NGC 253
The centre of NGC 253
SN 1996cr in Circinus galaxy
The hibernating stellar magnet (artist's impression)
The double firing burst (artist's impression)
Large-scale structures
Artist's rendering of the 2M1207 system
N 164 nebula in the LMC
Cosmic ballet or devil's mask - galaxy triplet NGC 6769-71 (VLT MELIPAL + VIMOS)
Preparing for the observations
Reinstallation of the mirrors
FORS1 and FORS2 at ANTU and KUEYEN
Artist’s impression of the black hole in the M87 galaxy and its powerful jet
Asteroid Kleopatra from different angles (annotated)
Comparison of the L 98-59 exoplanet system with the inner Solar System
Solar Eclipse in La Silla 2019
Simulation of a Supermassive Black Hole
Paranal Observatory and the VLT
ESO Supernova opening — a new supernova over Munich
The Pirate of the Southern Skies
Four lasers light up Paranal
Le tour de Supernova
A wider view of the Carina Nebula
Elliptical elegance
Artist’s impression of a dusty starburst galaxy
ESO Supernova at dusk
Spiky stars
ESO Supernova reception area
Reception at the ESO Supernova
Beneath a Supernova
Clear skies over the ESO Supernova
Planets over the Supernova reception
The path towards knowledge
ESO Supernova exhibitions
SPHERE image of the dusty disc around IM Lupi
ESO's Very Large Telescope in action
The surface of the red giant star π1 Gruis from PIONIER on the VLT
Panorama at Chajnantor
Glowing AT
Nightfall ALMA
Airglow and the Milky Way above Paranal
La Silla sunset and green flash
First results from the KiDS survey (dark matter)
Group portrait at Paranal
VLT and a field of stars
Roadside telescope
A cyclops from below
The dark nebula LDN 483
Panorama from Paranal
Artist’s impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope
Astroarchitectonic
Dusk over the Atacama
Fiery sunset over Paranal
Fish-eye view of ALMA
Cosmic fire above Paranal
Night at Paranal
Amethyst aura
A fish-eye view of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope
Stars circle over Cerro Armazones
Ultra HD Expedition day 5: Orion and Horsehead Nebula over the VLT
Welcome to ESO Headquarters
Welcome to ESO Headquarters
Wide-field view of the Lagoon Nebula
ALMA seen from a hexacopter
AEM Consortium’s facility
Landscape at Chajnantor
Panorama at Chajnantor
Panorama of Cerro Armazones
La Silla at night
The four ESO observatories
VLT at night
APEX during winter
The Magellanic Clouds over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope
Close up of the SEST
Preparing an ALMA antenna's journey
ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plateau
ALMA antennas
Water testing ALMA antennas
The VLT Survey Telescope observing on a moonlit night
Highlights of Messier 78: a reflection nebula in Orion
The superwind galaxy NGC 4666
Icy lagoon near Paranal
Cerro Armazones - site of the future E-ELT
La Silla Observatory
ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla
Three ALMA antennas working in unison
Comet McNaught
La Silla Observatory
La Silla *
AT4 at dawn on Paranal
NTT - active optics support
NTT in its enclosure
ALMA antenna prototype
A plume on Betelgeuse (artist’s impression with annotations)
Radar images of 2000 PH5
The starburst galaxy NGC 908
The hooked galaxy and its companion
Gas pillars in Tarantula Nebula
The colossal cosmic eye NGC 1350
Solar neigbourhood stars in the Milky Way galaxy (artist's view).
Which ringed planet...!?
In Tarantula territory (g)
Distant cluster MS 1008.1-1224
ISAAC mounted at ANTU
Persistent dust jets at comet Hale-Bopp
An infrared view of the region around the Coronet star cluster
The ELT's construction site on Cerro Armazones
Artist’s impression of Proxima d (close-up)
Ceres and Vesta
Kalliope and Psyche
Ausonia and Urania
Poster of 42 asteroids in our Solar System and their orbits (blue background)
Poster of 42 asteroids in our Solar System and their orbits (black background)
Sylvia and Lamberta
Size comparison of asteroid Kleopatra with northern Italy
VLT telescopes under the Moon
Yepun fulldome
VLT laser guide star
Montage of 3D models and their visual counterparts
Solar Eclipse in La Silla 2019
Simulation of a Supermassive Black Hole
R Aquarii as seen in 1997
Music in the planetarium
Artist’s impression of the surface of a super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star
Beam me up, Yepun
Let there be light
Shimmers and sprials
Red sky at night . . .
Flags ahoy!
Exhibition with a view
ESO Supernova opening — a new supernova over Munich
ESO Supernova opening — a new supernova over Munich
To the window to the roof
Supernova from a distance
Approach to Supernova
Food for thought
ESO's History: the Danish 0.5-metre
Startrails seen from Paranal Observatory
A sneak-peek into ESO's new Supernova Planetarium and Visitor Centre
Starlight on the Swedish–ESO Submillimetre Telescope
Highlights from a new infrared image of the Orion Nebula
Panorama view of La Silla telescopes shown in UHD
Entrance of ESO Headquarters
Another clear day at Paranal
Auxiliary opens
A comet across the zodiac
Another clear day at Paranal
Cerro Armazones
AT beneath the Milky Way
Cerro Paranal in shadow
The path to Paranal
Cerro Armazones at sunset
ALMA antennas
Celestial equator above Paranal
The big brother and its two smaller siblings
VLT control building
Driving in the darkness
VISTA observing the sky
Salar de Tara
A lake in the desert
ALMA Operation Support Facility
Power of nature