A revolutionary muse
A distant beacon
The golden oldie of ESO
Full Moon turns red
Partial eclipse over Chile’s Atacama Desert
The Cartwheel galaxy seen by MUSE
Something new in the sky
Sunrise at Cerro Armazones
Extremely strong foundations
Image of the most massive planet-hosting star pair observed to date
Artist’s impression of the galaxy NGP–190387
A cosmic rainbow over the VLT
Image of Betelgeuse’s surface taken in January 2020
Image of Betelgeuse’s surface taken in December 2019
Touching the Arc of Space
A failed galaxy
A sea of clouds
Artist’s rendering of quasar P172+18
Through a crystal ball
Shooting Star over ESO Telescopes
Venus, Jupiter and the Art of Patience
Season’s Greetings from the European Southern Observatory!
The Beauty of 22 Degrees
SPHERE image of Hygiea
Artist’s impression of a fast radio burst traveling through space and reaching Earth
Stars Form in Silence
Red and Long Dead
The edge of totality
ALMA & APEX's Crucial Contribution to the EHT
Picturesque poison
Satellite reflections over CTA Site
Season’s Greetings from the European Southern Observatory!
Night sky over La Silla
UT1 and the Milky Way
Extremely large astronomy
Autumn gold
ALMA spies a new planetary nursery
Birds-eye view of the VLT
Inspired by Interstellar
Trapped by lasers
Artist’s impression of the black hole binary system in NGC 3201
Seeing stars in a mountain environment
Milky Way curves around the VLT
Galaxy group COSMOS-Gr30
Artist’s impression of the dust belts around Proxima Centauri
Artist’s impression of merging neutron stars
La Silla at night
ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space
ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space
Artist’s impression of gas fueling distant starburst galaxies
Lunar eclipse seen from Garching
ALMA detects methyl isocyanate around young Sun-like stars
Dark matter map of KiDS survey region (region G12)
Sunset at the VLT
Deep view of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
Milky Way at Chajnantor
Milky Way at Chajnantor
The dwarf galaxy IC 1613
SPHERE reveals spiral disc around nearby star
VLT and Hubble images of the disc around AU Microscopii
Total lunar eclipse over ESO Headquarters
ELT and the Pacific Ocean
ELT and the Paranal Observatory
Artist’s impression of a Jupiter twin orbiting HIP 11915
The Halo of Galaxy Messier 87
A spectacular view over the Atacama
Sitting at the top of a cloud
Highlights of La Silla
SEST on fire
ESO Headquarters
The Milky Way over SEST
SEST in the desert
Danish dome
La Silla telescope by night
La Silla lined up
Danish 1.54-metre telescope at La Silla
La Silla scatter
The silent SEST
NTT under the clouds
Clouds fly by the NTT
Clouds fly by the ESO 3.6-metre telescope
NTT hides the Moon
NTT swallows the Milky Way
La Silla at night
Hotel room, clear skies included
A lone giant
ESO and the Milky Way
A guiding star
Cerro Armazones at night
An Auxiliary Telescope among three giants in UHD
The VLT under the Milky Way in UHD
Laser of the VLT in UHD
Very Large Telescope Laser Guide Star in UHD
The VLT and three galaxies in UHD
VLT and VST in UHD
Dancing telescopes
Otto the transporter
ALMA antennas
ALMA antennas
Antenna under galaxies
Zodiacal light at Paranal
An Emu in the Sky over Paranal
Milky Way at Chajnantor
Carving a route to Armazones
Giants at work
A deep look into a dark sky
A bird’s-eye view of ESO
The VLT’s artificial star
The final ALMA antenna arrives at Chajnantor
Sunrise over the VLT
Clear blue Atacama view
Crescent Moon at ALMA
The road to Paranal
Planets align over La Silla
Llamas at La Silla
Our galaxy revealed with the VLTI
Stars rain down at La Silla
An interior view of the ESO Headquarters Extension
The ALMA camp horizon by night
Babak on VLT platform
MUSE image of the Orion Nebula
MUSE colour-coded image of NGC 4650A
Schematic view of asteroid (25143) Itokawa
Star trails over the VLT in Paranal
Ancient constellations over ALMA
Flaming sky over Paranal
Surprise cloud around vast star
An oasis, or a secret lair?
The comet and the laser
Paranal and the shadow of the Earth
KMOS on the Very Large Telescope at the time of first light
Dark galaxies spotted for the first time
Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope
Two Auxiliary Telescopes
Christmas comet Lovejoy captured at Paranal
Simulation of gas cloud after close approach to the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
ALMA's world at night (full panorama)
Paranal submerges into sunset
NGC 6188
Laser meets lightning
A galactic embrace
A VLT Auxiliary Telescope and Cerro Armazones
The star cluster and nebula NGC 371
The coolest pair of brown dwarfs
Sailing the Atacama Desert
The first ALMA antennas on Chajnantor
Artist’s impression of the magnetar in the extraordinary star cluster Westerlund 1
The material around SN 1987A (artist’s impression)
Wide field view of the R Coronae Australis region
The oddest member of the Leo Triplet
Detailed view of a section of the Large Magellanic Cloud
ALMA site
La Silla telescope ring
Evening view of Paranal and the VLT
SEST in the evening
The VLT platform on top of Cerro Paranal
Moonlit La Silla
SEST at night
An ALMA antenna en route to the plateau of Chajnantor for the first time
A binary black hole
A cometary show
Cosmic spider: the Tarantula Nebula
Tarantula's central cluster, R136
Sky above Paranal
Robert's Quartet
Filaments in Tarantula
The central area of the Tarantula Nebula
Detail of spiral galaxy NGC 4945
Sleeping beauty awakens in La Silla
Warming up in the Sun
Hidden in the Chilean Andes
Artist’s impression of HD 45166, the star that might become a magnetar
Peekaboo
A donut in the sky
Making of the image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
Thermal images of Neptune taken between 2006 and 2020
Thermal images of Neptune taken between 2006 and 2020 (different layout)
Stars around Sgr A* in July 2021
Stars around Sgr A* in May 2021
Stars around Sgr A* in March 2021
Stars around Sgr A* in June 2021
ESO’s ELT home in the desert
New Technology for a Sharper Future
Image of Betelgeuse’s surface taken in March 2020
Image of Betelgeuse’s surface taken in January 2019
Detection of heavy metals in the atmosphere of comet C/2016 R2
Yepun on the VLT platform
Death by Laser?
Concentric Circles
Phosphine detected in Venus's atmosphere
Comet NEOWISE Spotted above ESO Headquarters
Comet NEOWISE Spotted above ESO Headquarters
Artist’s impression of the night side of WASP-76 b
Artist’s impression of strontium emerging from a neutron star merger
The ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre
A lonely little telescope (annotated)
Unrivalled vistas at La Silla
Artist's impression of radioactive molecules in CK Vulpeculae
Celestial Art
Swimming Moon
Artist’s impression of ancient galaxy megamerger
Supernova from above
ESO Supernova Opening Campaign
ESPRESSO instrument achieves first light with all four Unit Telescopes
The VLT’s night light
The planetary nebula IC 4406 seen with MUSE and the AOF
Green and blue
VISTA’s view of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Comparison of rotating disc galaxies in the distant Universe and the present day
Supermassive black hole with torn-apart star (artist’s impression)
Xavier Barcons appointed as next ESO Director General
Young stellar system caught in the act of forming close multiples
The unusual cluster Terzan 5
The unusual cluster Terzan 5
Why so blue?
Boulevard of broken rings
Searching Centaurus
All the way around Armazones
The colourful star cluster NGC 2367
An astronomer’s outlook
Heavy metal
Green ALMA antennas
The dark cloud Lupus 4
Paranal Auxiliary Telescope
Artist’s impression of the discs around the young stars HK Tauri A and B
Gamma-ray burst buried in dust (artist’s impression)
Chilean night sky revealed at La Silla
Artist’s impression of the planet Beta Pictoris b
The Toby Jug Nebula as seen with ESO's Very Large Telescope
Bipolar planetary nebula NGC 6537
Belt of Venus over Cerro Paranal