Red Paranal
VLT platform fulldome view
Dark Chilean skies
Full perspective of La Silla
ESO 3.6-metre telescope fish-eye view
Fulldome view of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope
La Silla fulldome perspective
Milky Way arcs La Silla
Milky Way revealed above La Silla night sky
Daytime fulldome perspective of La Silla
SEST cloudscape
Fulldome perspective of SEST at night
SEST at dawn
Fulldome view from Cerro Murphy
Full perspective of the NTT
The road to the future
SPHERE images the dust ring around the star HR 4796A
Cloaked in stars
Belt of Venus
Peering through the looking glass
The colourful star cluster NGC 3590
Big and bigger
The Paranal-Armazones area
Artist’s impression of the magnetar in the star cluster Westerlund 1
Cosmic portal from the Atacama desert
Atacama fish-eye
Atacama sunset
Golden Milky Way hangs brightly over the VLT
VLT shows off the night sky
Beasts of burden
Atacama moonset
Capturing the ultra high definition Universe
Milky Way points down to Cerro Paranal
Ultra HD Expedition day 3 - small and large Magellanic clouds above the VLT
Ultra HD Expedition day 3 - The skies above the Residencia
On the road to Armazones
VST snaps Gaia en route to a billion stars
Installation of VLT instrument MUSE
Working on ALMA
VLT's adaptive optics at work
Rosetta's comet
The path of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in October 2013
VLT snap of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in October 2013
Bright night at Paranal
ALMA antenna and the Moon
Equine visitors
Two naked-eye galaxies above the VLT
Composite view of the galaxy NGC 1433 from ALMA and Hubble
Unveiling distant stars and galaxies
Toconao seen from above
Eyes over Cerro Armazones
Carved by massive stars
Starry night at La Silla
One of an array
Milky Way over La Silla
ALMA antenna
ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plateau
A VLT Auxiliary Telescope watches the Milky Way
Yepun and the Laser Guide Star
The NTT spinning like a top
Maëlle's new toys
European antennas at ALMA’s Operations Support Facility
La Silla Observatory
The Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope in its dome at La Silla
The rise and fall of a Supernova
ALMA antennas
Three planets dance over La Silla (annotated)
Panorama of VISTA and view
The astronomical observatory of the Aosta Valley
Mirror Maintenance Building at dawn
MMB and its surroundings
Panorama of Mirror Maintenance Building
Panorama of the ALMA OSF
Panoramic view of Paranal
Panorama inside the Residencia
Panorama at the OSF
Panorama at the OSF
Panorama at the entrance of La Residencia
Silver and blue at Paranal
A sparkling ribbon of stars — the Southern Milky Way over La Silla
Stars circle over the Residencia at Cerro Paranal
Chief scientific adviser to the European Commission, Anne Glover, visits ESO’s Paranal Observatory
Catching light
Paranal Observatory - instruments (period 89)
Paranal Observatory - instruments (period 92)
Comets and shooting stars dance over Paranal
Snow comes to the Atacama Desert
PARLA laser at the VLT
PARLA laser at the VLT
Startrails over the VLT platform
Moon trail
Circumpolar startrails over the Atacama
Laser and light painting
An intergalactic heavyweight
APEX under the Moon
ALMA antennas on Chajnantor
From Antu to Yepun (the historical image)
From Antu to Yepun (the present-day image)
Artist’s impression of the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9
The free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9
The free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9 (annotated)
The free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9
Building the Paranal Residencia — From turbulence to tranquility (present day image)
Building the Paranal Residencia — from turbulence to tranquility (historical image)
Comparison of views of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 from WFI and Hubble
The globular star cluster NGC 6362
Wide-field view of the sky around the globular cluster NGC 6362
Hubble image of the globular star cluster NGC 6362
Xavier Barcons at the ESO 50th anniversary gala event
Xavier Barcons at the ESO 50th anniversary gala event
The Milky Way and Alpha and Beta Centauri behind the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla
Signing of a prototype mirror segment for the E-ELT, to mark ESO’s 50th anniversary
Gala event celebrates 50 years of the European Southern Observatory
Winner of the ESO anniversary competition — the Thor’s Helmet Nebula
A timeless sanctuary in Santiago (historical image)
A timeless sanctuary in Santiago (present-day image)
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the centre of Messier 4
The globular star cluster Messier 4 and the location of a curious star
The globular star cluster Messier 4
A surprising superbubble
Laser Guide Star sweeps across a starry sky
From a dirt track to the world’s leading observatory (present)
From a dirt track to the world’s leading observatory (historical)
From a dirt track to the world’s leading observatory (side-by-side composite)
Red cocoon harbours young stars
Computing at ESO through the ages
Computing at ESO through the ages
La Silla
La Silla, the first home for ESO’s telescopes (side-by-side composite)
La Silla, the first home for ESO’s telescopes (historical image)
La Silla, the first home for ESO’s telescopes (present-day image)
APEX site
Artist’s impression of sunset on the super-Earth world Gliese 667 Cc
Wish you were here?
Wish you were here?
Melipal — the VLT Unit Telescope 3
Snow at the Chajnantor plateau
Snow at the Chajnantor plateau
ALMA 7-metre antenna on a transporter
The heart of the Milky Way, for Valentine’s Day
A drive through time — how telescopes, and cars, have changed at La Silla
Barred spiral galaxy swirls in the night sky
Infrared/visible light comparison view of the Helix Nebula
ALMA’s grand antennas
The Milky Way over the Danish 1.54-metre telescope at La Silla
El Gordo: a massive distant merging galaxy cluster
El Gordo: a massive distant merging galaxy cluster
Mapping dark matter in galaxies
A glimpse into the past — then and now at La Silla Observatory
Inside Euler's Head — Or how to see a telescope through the walls of its dome
Llullaillaco, clear as day
The VLT’s Next-generation Laser Launch Telescope
A double green flash
Working at ALMA, day and night
Portrait of an imperfect but beautiful spiral
Flying above the ALMA site: the Operations Support Facility
All four VLT Unit Telescopes working as one
Santiago guesthouse panorama
Red Moon rising
A star that should not exist
VISTA finds star clusters galore
European ALMA antenna brings total on Chajnantor to 16
Very Large Telescope ready for action
Flying above the ALMA OSF
Highlights from the VST image of Omega Centauri
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
First 7-metre ALMA antenna handed over to observatory
ALMA antennas reach double digits at Chajnantor
A quartet of ALMA antennas placed close together
Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plain
Up close and Personal with the Very Large Telescope
A gallery of spiral galaxies pictured in infrared light by HAWK-I (unannotated version)
HAWK-I image of NGC 5247
HAWK-I image of Messier 100
HAWK-I image of NGC 1232
HAWK-I image of NGC 1300
HAWK-I image of NGC 2997
A gallery of spiral galaxies pictured in infrared light by HAWK-I (annotated version)
HAWK-I image of NGC 4030
Arp 271 — galaxies drawn together*
The star cluster Westerlund 1
The 2010 Perseids over the VLT
Building connections with EVALSO
An ALMA antenna at the OSF
Paranal’s telescopes in the distance
Starbursting sculptor galaxy
Highlights from VISTA’s infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula
Antennas at the ALMA Operations Support Facility*
Star-forming region Gum 19
A view of Paranal at sunset from Armazones
APEX image calendar, August 2010 — APEX before sunset
A VLT unit
Comet McNaught over Paranal
La Silla
The future ALMA array on Chajnantor (artist’s rendering)
Dinner for Centaurus A
The GigaGalaxy Zoom composite
The NTT enclosure
The planetary system in Gliese 581 (artist's impression)
The inner part of an active galactic Nucleus (artist's impression)
Centaurus A (NGC 5128)
"Walking on the Moon" with the VLT
In Tarantula territory (d)
In Tarantula territory (e)
NGC 2613
Radio galaxy Centaurus A
An infrared view of the 9io9 galaxy
A new life for an old telescope
Lunar eclipse from the APEX telescope
CONCERTO show starts with new view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula
The CRIRES+ instrument
Panoramic view of the Armazones crater where the ELT will be located
Auxiliary Telescope
Helix in fulldome
Surroundings of the star HR 8799
An exhibition of stars
The Hyperion Proto-Supercluster
A journey through space & time