
A family portrait

A family portrait

Xavier Barcons starts as Director General of ESO

Pillars of light atop Paranal

Inside VISTA

Artist's impression of the unique rocky comet C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS)

Sunset at Paranal

The rich star cluster IC 4651

A surreal sunset at Paranal

VISTA on the edge

ALMA antenna in detail

ALMA transporter Lore

Night sky at Paranal

Distracting clouds

The most powerful telescope in the world

Antennas in the desert

Aerial view of the ESO Headquarters

E-ELT groundbreaking event

November night at Paranal

HAWK-I at VLT during the UHD Expedition

Auxiliary Telescope at Paranal

Gazing into the deep

Alien ALMA

Violet Universe

Panorama of the VLT in action

ESO’s La Silla Observatory

Surface map of Luhman 16B recreated from VLT observations

Cerro Armazones at sunset

Ocean of blue

The galactic centre and bulge above the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

ALMA Operations Support Facility

Road to La Silla

The VLT's Laser Guide Star and star trails

ESO's Very Large Telescope

Santiago

Aerial view of Cerro Paranal

Artist's impression of the Gliese 667C system

Cerro Armazones Observatory

Small garden panorama

Panorama inside UT4's dome

Panorama inside the dome

Panorama inside a Unit Telescope

Panorama of VISTA from the inside

Sunset at La Silla

APEX panorama

AT3 at Paranal

VLT 4LGSF laser launch telescope

Aerial view of ESO Headquarters

Star trails at Cerro Armazones

ALMA antenna on a transporter

The control room of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

ALMA front end servicing vehicle and transporter

ALMA antennas on Chajnantor

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

Comparison of the field of view of VST/OmegaCAM and other telescopes

The first European antenna for ALMA is handed over to the observatory

Contrast at Paranal Residencia

The Paranal Residencia

Partial solar eclipse over the VLT

European Commission and EIROforum pledge to extend collaboration

The Milky Way seen from the Atacama Desert

Dramatic moonset

APEX, the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, on Chajnantor

Cerro Armazones at sunset

The Pipe Nebula

La Silla Observatory

Comet McNaught and NTT dome

VLTI Control Room

Comet McNaught over La Silla

VLTI lab

Paranal Residencia

The galactic glory of NGC 2280

Paranal Observatory

A 3D view of remote galaxies

Chasing 'hidden' galaxies (artist's impression)

The AMBER instrument

Maps of BzK-15504

Emission of the galaxy BzK-15504

Globular cluster NGC 6397

Two planet-size dwarfs

Deep image of a region in Fornax

DEM L 297 Nebula in the LMC

SNR 0543-689 in the LMC

The new set at Paranal - The VLT, the VST dome and the AT1

N44C in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Nebulae near the hot binary star BAT99-49 in the LMC

VIMOS mask design on pre-image

VIMOS integrated field-spectrum of Antennae Galaxies (detail)

VIMOS integrated field-spectrum of antennae galaxies

YEPUN enclosure

The VLT control room

The polished fourth 8.2-m VLT mirror at REOSC

Protostar HH 34 in Orion

Stellar cluster NGC 1850 in the LMC

Aerial view of Paranal and Atacama desert

The RCW 38 cluster in visible light

Large dusty clumps orbiting V960 Mon captured by ALMA

Artist’s impression of a micronova (close up)

Auxiliary Telescope at sunset

VLTI's Auxiliary Telescope at Dusk

A black hole caught blowing a gust

Panoramic view of the VLTI laboratory

Milky Way above SPECULOOS

VLT's Auxiliary

Circle of light

Supernova from above

Summer AstroCamp 2018

Panoramic Supernova

Spin the planet

Supernova flags

Raising the flag

Artist’s impressions of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system

The Moon and the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

ALMA observes the night sky

A peak inside la Residencia

Panorama of VLT and control building

Highlights from huge VST nebula image

TRAPPIST–south bathed in soft light

Artist's impression of the planet orbiting Proxima Centauri (annotated)

Airglow above the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun

Airglow above the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

Green light for GALACSI's blue glow

Panoramic view of the VLTI laboratory

Airglow above the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

Peek-a-boo atop Paranal

Red sprites at La Silla Observatory

Dusk over Cerro Armazones

Artist’s impression of bright exozodiacal light

The signing ceremony with Poland

APEX view of the region around the Spiderweb galaxy

VLT and the Milky Way

Sunset at Paranal

Orion raising over petroglyphs

Bringing the Universe closer with Ultra HD

The Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy — VISTA

Swirling stars above ALMA's home

Aerial view of ALMA

Chajnantor plateau

TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope–South

PARLA laser at the VLT

Day and night at Paranal

Yepun in the twilight

VLT and VST

ALMA antenna at Chajnantor

Two ALMA antennas

Busy days

Yepun and the Laser Guide Star

As time goes by

First rays of sun at the VLT

Superb new mirrors bring exoplanet discoveries nearer

Starry night at Cerro Armazones

The first "3D" data from the VLTI

Frenzied star birth in Haro 11

A blue-green flash at Paranal Observatory

VISTA from above

APEX image calendar, May 2010 — APEX antenna at 5,104 m

Comet McNaught

ELT in its enclosure

Milky Way over Paranal *

ESO 1-metre telescope experiment

NTT mirror

ESO flags

Evening view of Paranal and the VLT

EMMI on the NTT

The Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy — VISTA

ESO Headquarters

La Silla aerial view

The growing-up of a star: the disc around MWC 147

The Antiope doublet

The Control Room of Kueyen

Mapping distant galaxies

The central part of Messier 12

Open cluster Haffner 18

The Nebular Blob in N214C

The LMC HII region N214C

SNR B0544-6910 in the LMC

Stellar cluster NGC 2093 in the LMC

The Ant Nebula at 12.8 μm

Centaurus A

Giant interacting galaxies NGC 6872/IC 4970

Spiral galaxy NGC 2997

SOFI mounted at the ESO NTT telescope

ALMA image of the cold gas in REBELS-25

Motion of the cold gas in REBELS-25 as seen by ALMA

Planet-forming discs in the Orion cloud

Highlights of the Vela supernova remnant

VST image processing workflow

The Milky Way and the location of its central black hole as viewed from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array

Close-up view of the nearest pair of supermassive black holes

Milky Way from La Silla

Selfie under the stars

SPHERE images of Hygiea, Vesta and Ceres

Combined Corona

The EHT, a Planet-Scale Array

GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging

The Void of the ESO Supernova

Supernova reception at night

ESO Signs Contract with Chilean Company for ELT Technical Facility

The ExTrA telescopes at La Silla

VLTI tunnel panorama

All around the starry sky

ALMA observes the full solar disc

Moon dome

The predicted trajectory of Alpha Centauri A and B

Artist’s impression of the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 from the surface of one of its planets

Meteor above La Silla Observatory

Bridge over the VLT

Sun-kissed APEX

Magellanic Clouds above the Danish 1.54-metre telescope

Paranal laser

GRAVITY: a powerful new probe of black holes

Band 5 ALMA receiver

Team VLT

The VLT and VST

Heavy lifting

Zodiacal light seen from Paranal

The little planet of ALMA

Magellanic Clouds at Paranal

VISTA observing the sky

A challenging wasteland

Ice in the desert

Saturn's moon Titan observed using the polarimetric mode of SPHERE

Distant view of ALMA

Shooting the starry skies