
First image from the XMM-LSS Wide-Field X-Ray Survey

The MACAO-VLTI commissioning team during “first light”

VLT Active Optics distorted images

VLT main mirror deformation (four-fold symmetry)

Supernova at redshift z = 0.40

The innermost coma of comet Hyakutake

The innermost coma of comet Hyakutake

Split comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3

VLT’s lasers firing off into the night sky above the Atacama desert

A bird's eye view of ESO’s Very Large Telescope