The Sh2-284 nebula, imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope
Telescopes inside a washing machine?
ALMA antennas
A hypnotising galaxy
Yepun adding stars to the night sky
Composite infrared and radio image of 30 Doradus
Little planet? Extremely large telescope!
The Flame Nebula region as seen with APEX and VISTA
Bumps in the heavens
Eclipsed Moon at Paranal
Zooming in on Star Formation
Orion Watches over Paranal
Close-up of ELT primary mirror (artist's impression)
Falling in Fornax
VISTA at night (Pano-VT version)
A Cosmic Vista
Young planet creates a scene
Lunar Eclipse @ ESO
ELT adaptive optics
Artist’s impression of the remote dusty galaxy A2744_YD4
Size of the ELT
Immersive Paranal world
Jupiter imaged using the VISIR instrument on the VLT
Immersive Paranal world
The colourful star cluster NGC 3532
Milky Way over ALMA
Immersive Paranal world
Colourful ALMA vista
La Silla UHD panorama
Orion captured between the NTT
Reaching out to the stars
Framing the night sky
Nova Centaurus 2013 (non-annotated)
It's lonely at the top
Milky Way over La Residencia
The bright star cluster NGC 6520 and the strangely shaped dark cloud Barnard 86
Artist’s impression of the ELT
The star cluster NGC 6604 and its surroundings
Straight to the Milky Way´s heart
ALMA antennas at OSF*
The Cat's Paw Nebula*
Comet McNaught
ALMA prototype-antennas at the ALMA test facility*
Beautiful sky over Paranal *
Barnard's Galaxy
The Arches cluster
The star T Leporis as seen with VLTI
The globular cluster Omega Centauri*
Sharpening up Jupiter
N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Bok globule B68
Star-forming region RCW 108 in Ara
Take a tour of the stunning Gum 41 nebula
A star goes supernova in a binary system
Artist’s impression of the pulsar PSR J1023+0038
An infrared view of the L1688 region in Ophiuchus
The technology behind the astronomy
VISTA’s view on stellar births
A village in the desert?
When giants meet
Family tradition
Wide and close-up views of a moon-forming disc as seen with ALMA
Gazing up in wonder
The UHD Universe
Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plain *
ALMA explores a Cosmic Jellyfish
The Rosy Glow of a Cosmic Seagull
Highest resolution image of the 1919 solar eclipse
Nature’s Fireworks
Safe havens for young planets
Comet-like stars
Hidden from view
ALMA's dramatic surroundings
VIMOS image of galaxy NGC 4993 showing the visible-light counterpart to a merging neutron star pair
ALMA Explores Fomalhaut’s Debris Disc
The Very Large Telescope and the star system Alpha Centauri
Region R44 in the Carina Nebula
ESO signs largest ever ground-based astronomy contract for ELT dome and telescope structure
The surroundings of the interacting galaxy NGC 5291
ESO's 10000th public image shows ALMA transporters and Milky Way
The Prawn Nebula in close-up
Nova Centauri 2013 seen from La Silla
Hubble image of the galaxy cluster Abell 3827
Sunset and moonset
VST images the Lagoon Nebula
Licancabur dominates the sky
The Very Large Telescope
Artist’s impression of the ELT
Winter view over VISTA
The star formation region NGC 3324
The smoky pink core of the Omega Nebula
The future Extremely Large Telescope
IC 2944, nicknamed the Running Chicken Nebula
The ELT (artist's impression)
A slice of the sky
Wide Field Imager view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3621
VISTA’s infrared view of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253)
The classic spiral Messier 83 seen in the infrared with HAWK-I
Cerro Armazones at sunset
The ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla
A giant galaxy
Laser beam creating an “artificial” star
Paranal platform
Spiral galaxy NGC 7793
Pluto (artist's impression)
Star-forming region NGC 346
The newly identified cluster
Io
Aerial view of the VLTI with tunnels superimposed
The Orion Nebula*
Celestial scribbled notes
A silent watcher
A view of the jet and shadow of M87’s black hole
When the Sun draws in the Sky
A Danish view of the Milky Way
The icy moons of Jupiter
A mirror to the past
Meteor shower in the Chilean Desert
First image of our black hole (with wider background)
Planet La Silla and the Milky Way
Ready for the night
Dome of Light
Starbursts and slow burns
Messier 87 Captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope
Shooting the messenger
Face to face with the Moon
VLT view of binary system R Aquarii from 2012
VLT/MUSE image of the galaxy NGC 4993 and associated kilonova
Delicate bubble of expelled material around the cool red star U Antliae
Seeing double
Celestial spiral with a twist
Planets in the making
A concept view of the ELT
Sunset panorama at La Silla
VISTA views the Trifid Nebula and reveals hidden variable stars
Is it a bird…?
Ultra HD expedition day 6: astronomers talking at Paranal Residencia
Detailed view of the Prawn Nebula from ESO's VST
Artist’s impression of snow lines around TW Hydrae
La Silla under the stars
Aerial view of Cerro Paranal
Moon rise at the Very Large Telescope
APEX image of a star-forming filament in Taurus
The “little world” of Paranal
Launching a star
Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plain
The VLT “Venus” and the Belt of Venus
Eight ALMA antennas on Chajnantor*
Shooting a laser at the Galactic Centre
Dramatic moonset
Laser Guide Star Facility
Comet Hale-Bopp
Orion above the VLT
Paranal after sunset
Paranal trail
Paranal observatory under moonlight *
Paranal platform – 2007
Distorted galaxy NGC 2442
Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST)
Messier 100 and supernova SN 2006X
Twin explosions in gigantic dusty potato crisp
Globular cluster NGC 6397
Spiral galaxy NGC 300
The galactic starburst region NGC 3603 *
The Dark Wolf Nebula
A full moon rises
BlackGEM array at ESO's La Silla ready for observations
A new planet is born
Almost touching
MORFEO model
The Sh2-54 nebula in the infrared with VISTA
Flying progress on the ELT
Four eyes on the sky
ESO’s 60th anniversary image: the Cone Nebula as seen by the VLT
Guiding the Milky Way
Purple haze
Starry, Starry Night
Enviable views
Into the vortex
Creator of stars
Falling from the stars
A rift in the sky
ELT platform showing its first set of instruments
A starry superbubble
The Very Large Telescope: unique and powerful
ANDES model
METIS model
HARMONI model
Hanging high above: the ELT’s secondary mirror
Ring Around the Moon
Proposed CTA Telescopes
Proposed CTA Telescopes
A Galactic Ballet
An Aged Observer
ALMA
Worlds with many suns
Pitch perfect in DSHARP at ALMA
CTA Telescopes in Southern Hemisphere
Lasers in the night
A rather large telescope
Star trails over SEST
Night over Chajnantor
Construction of the ELT Technical Facility at Paranal
Coils of Apep
Cloudlets swarm around our local supermassive black hole
Through the Hourglass
A Galactic Gem
New SPHERE view of Vesta
The rich region around the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud
VIMOS’s last embrace
An echo of light
VLT map of gas within NGC 7252’s minispiral
Hubble image of NGC 7252
Star formation region Lupus 3
Antares overlooking an Auxiliary Telescope
Composite of images of NGC 4993 and kilonova from many ESO instruments
Dazzling galaxy Messier 77
Artist’s rendering of the ELT in operation
Great Cold Spot discovered on Jupiter
Dawn of a new era for Supernova 1987A
Artist’s impression of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system
The Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae
VISTA views Messier 78
Milky Way over Paranal
Where heaven and earth collide
Artist's impression of the planet orbiting Proxima Centauri
Artist’s impression of a hot Jupiter exoplanet in the star cluster Messier 67
Panorama view of La Silla telescopes shown in UHD
VST image of the Fornax galaxy cluster
ALMA image of the disc around the young star TW Hydrae