A bright canvas
The ESO 60th anniversary logo
GEMs in the sky (and on the ground!)
Peeking above the horizon
Galaxy Messier 77 and close-up view of its active centre
Colour before the dark
Season’s Greetings from the European Southern Observatory!
ESO’s VLTI images of stars at the centre of the Milky Way
Artist impression showing b Centauri and its giant planet b Centauri b
Observing across the spectrum
Twilight Glow
North Meets South (360 Degrees)
Fisheye on the galaxy
Artist’s impression of the L 98-59 planetary system
Capturing a Comet
Lone Ranger
Test-Bed Telescope 2 at ESO’s La Silla Observatory
Image of the 2I/Borisov interstellar comet captured with the VLT
ALMA image of M87 jet in polarised light
A Telescopic Quartet
Splitting the sky
Solitary Road
Gegenschein over ALMA
The Miñiques volcano complex near Chajnantor
New ESO’s VLT image of the Skull Nebula
Duo in the Dark
Trails of Stars over Paranal
Encircling Antu
Sheltering the ELT
Antu and the Milky Way
Red Sky at Night
(Sub)millimetre Stargazers
Sunset over Atacama
Oasis in the Desert
Other Worlds
Southern Stargazing
A Celestial Self-Portrait
Artist’s impression of the triple system with the closest black hole
A spectacle over La Silla
Four billion times better
Lightning over Bavaria
A very large eye exam
A Celestial Rocket
The Cosmos in Motion
Aerial view of ESO Headquarters
A New Age of Discoveries
Golf Ball World
Colour in the air
Jupiter’s Corona
Tour the Skies
When Light Collides
Star studded sunset
A Retired Stargazer
Perched on the mountain top
Inside the VST
Paranal in the Moonlight
An Unexpected Visitor
A Cosmic Pretzel
Banishing Light Pollution
Caught in the act
Lodewijk Woltjer (1930–2019)
Snowy Paranal
ESO’s submillimetre eye on the sky
360 degrees of the VLT
At home in the Milky Way
A game-changer
A modern view of the 1919 solar eclipse
Mars on Earth
Desert Stargazing
The Birth of the Hunter
Blood Red
A Twilight Tour of Paranal
Shaking stars
Yepun to the Universe
A Fleeting Moment in Time
The Magellanic Clouds
Simulation of Material Orbiting close to a Black Hole
Leviathan of the Atacama
Our galaxy over ALMA
An explosive phoenix
Sunny Supernova
V is for VLT
Under the celestial arch
Under the Southern Cross
Stormy seas in Carina
ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets
La Silla covers the Planetarium
Gentle giants of Chajnantor
Lights out in the galactic centre
The Moon over the ESO Supernova
A Supernova sunset
The Moon and Venus over the ESO Supernova
Super(nova) Seminar Room
A Void with a view
Planets in suspension
Pathway to sunset
ESO Supernova opening — a new supernova over Munich
An echo of light (annotated)
Silent night over Paranal
Number of papers published using observational data from different observatories (1996–2017)
First light for MATISSE interferometric instrument
The Tarantula Nebula region imaged with HAWK-I without adaptive optics
The Tarantula Nebula region imaged with HAWK-I with the Adaptive Optics Facility
A diamond in the rough
Season’s Greetings from the European Southern Observatory!
Colourful skies over Paranal Observatory
Breathtaking sunset over the Chajnantor Plateau
VLT’s SPHERE spies rocky worlds
The Planetarium and the Sun Pillar
MUSE spies accreting giant structure around a quasar
A gigantic cosmic bubble
ESO Open House Day 2017
A high-tech family portrait
Stars and spirals
Do-it-yourself Science — is Proxima c hiding in this graph?
Xavier Barcons at ESO Headquarters
Summer AstroCamp 2017
Watch the birdie
Example of a jellyfish galaxy
From the Residencia to the Milky Way
Spot the cluster
Settlers at La Silla
Guarding the galactic heart
The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, seals the time capsule at the first stone ceremony for the ELT
A trip to Mars
Artist’s impression of the super-Earth exoplanet LHS 1140b
Within Reach
ALMA views a stellar explosion in Orion
Spring Cleaning in an Infant Star System
Protostar blazes and reshapes its stellar nursery
ALMA and Hubble observe LL Pegasi
ALMA’s hole in the Universe
False dawn
Signatures from the past
ESO Astronomy Camp 2016
The Orion a molecular cloud from VISTA
A scorching soufflé
The merging galaxy system Arp 220 from ALMA and Hubble
Rolling hills
Fingerprint of the early Universe
The swimming Moon
Well on its way: the ALMA Residencia
Breathtaking views
Drones-eye view of the VLT
Artist’s impression of the water snowline around the young star V883 Orionis
Milky Way arching over La Silla
Atacama panorama
Celestial circles
King of the cosmos
VLT snaps an exotic exoplanet “first”
View above the Swedish/ESO Submillimetre Telescope
The vicuña and the antenna
The most powerful laser guide star system in the world sees first light at the Paranal Observatory
Paranal sky with comet
Beneath the Milky Way
A crescent Moon over the VLTI
Our nearest star system observed live
Centaurus over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope
The Vitacura Guesthouse gardens
Three pillars of astronomy
The Guanacos of Atacama
The ascent of man
Season’s Greetings from the European Southern Observatory!
A planetary Nebula divided
View above the Swedish/ESO Submillimetre Telescope
The Martian-like landscape of La Silla
Infant star’s first steps
Planet-hunting SPHERE images first circumbinary planet system with disc
Outbursts from a newborn star
Keeping cool at La Silla
Artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst and supernova powered by a magnetar
Stars circle La Silla
Planetary nebulae in galaxy Messier 87
Yepun and the Milky Way
VLT/SPHERE image of the star L2 Puppis and its surroundings
Wide view of the Crab Nebula
Rise of the Milky Way
ALMA from above
Iridescent nightscape over La Silla
A hole in the sky
3D data visualisation of the Pillars of Creation
ALMA’s OSF: an oasis in the desert
Stars rain over ALMA