
First 7-metre ALMA antenna arrives at Chajnantor

First 7-metre ALMA antenna arrives at Chajnantor

First 7-metre ALMA antenna arrives at Chajnantor

First 7-metre ALMA antenna arrives at Chajnantor

A spiral galaxy in Leo

Smoke signals in space

VST’s view of the Leo Triplet and beyond

The brilliant star VFTS 682 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

On top of the world

The desert around VISTA

VLT Unit Telescope at Paranal

SEST at La Silla from a distance

Dying star puffs a cosmic dragon

Recoating Yepun's mirror

UT1 and ATs

ALMA on the Chajnantor plains

Sunrise on Chajnantor

Chajnantor

The Southern Pinwheel

Gone with the wind

The greater dog from Paranal

Anteny ALMA o zachodzie Słońca

Comet West, 1976

VLT Laser Guide Star

Spiral galaxy NGC 1232

Black hole zapping a galaxy into existence

Nebula in serpens

The VLT and VISTA *

Filaments in the Tarantula Nebula

A dusty beauty

N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (central region)

Detail of star-forming region RCW 108 in Ara

A bubblegum-pink nebula

Teamwork makes an astronomer’s dream work

Road to the ELT

A flower with four petals

Combined SPHERE and ALMA image of material orbiting V960 Mon

Drone shot of the ELT under construction at Cerro Armazones

Giant cosmic networks

VLT: then vs now

VLT & Hubble views of the 244-440 young stellar object

A stellar sprinkler (alternative colour view)

Pinwheel firework

A blast from the past

Peering through the dust

NGC 7727’s spectacular galactic dance as seen by the VLT

The hunt for exoplanets

Twin telescopes share a sunset in Paranal

Ghostly galaxies above the VLT

Something new in the sky

Three’s a crowd

A cosmic caramel swirl

42 planetoidy sfotografowane przez VLT (z podpisami)

North Meets South

Processed SPHERE image showing the moons of Kleopatra

Purple Haze

In a cosmic wonderland

Flying on planet-forming wings

A Messy Nursery of Stars

Flowers of stellar wind could be due to stellar companions

A Kaleidoscope of Colour

Nowe zdjęcie mgławicy planetarnej NGC 2899 uzyskane przez VLT

Crux Watches Over ALMA

The Hunter and La Silla

Starshine in Canis Major

A Cosmic Bat in Flight

SPECULOOS gazing into the night

The Void of the ESO Supernova (panorama)

SPHERE images a zoo of dusty discs around young stars

Artystyczna wizja systemu planetarnego TRAPPIST-1

Pustynne widoki

Data from ESPRESSO First Light

ALMA view of the motions of material in the shell around U Antliae

Artist’s impression of the red supergiant star Antares

Twilight rays at La Silla

La Silla and surroundings

Three bands of light

All quiet in the nursery?

The dusty ring around the aging double star IRAS 08544-4431

Planetary analogue

Romantyczny zachód słońca nad VLT

ALMA antennas

Upside down

The final ALMA antenna arrives at Chajnantor

The star formation region Gum 41

ALMA antenna at night

Zodiacal glow lightens Paranal sky

ALMA panoramic view with Carina Nebula

Bipolar planetary nebula Hubble 12

PESSTO uchwycił supernową w Messier 74

Stunning ALMA and NTT image of newborn star

ALMA antennae

Desert from above

A compact array

Streaking stars

Images of gas cloud being ripped apart by the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way

VLT image of exoplanet HD 95086 b

Wings of Science nad ALMA

Laser Guide Star trails

APEX's icy companions

Zbliżenie na Mgławicę Wojna i Pokój

Cerro Armazones at dawn

Twinkle twinkle little star

The E-ELT on Cerro Armazones (artist's impression)

The AEM antenna 2

The glow of the Lagoon Nebula

GJ1214b (artist’s impression)

The Fornax Cluster of galaxies

ALMA test site in New Mexico, USA

ALMA antenna

VLT Unit Telescopes

Laser beam creating an “artificial” star

Comet West, March 1976

ALMA antennas

VLT Unit Telescopes under a starry sky

Antennas for ALMA at the Antenna Test Facility (ATF)

Supernova remnant NGC 2060

Star cluster RCW 38

One Auxiliary Telescope under the sky

The spectacular spiral galaxy ESO 269-G57

Spiral galaxy NGC 4565

Messier 83 – central region

Location of binary star D9 in the Milky Way

The REBELS-25 galaxy

Zooming in on a surprising ring

The next step in gravitational wave studies

Hiding in the crowd

Home is where the telescopes are

Night view of the ELT under construction atop Cerro Armazones

Counting sheep on the Chajnantor plateau

A fiery sky over Paranal

The new skyline of Cerro Armazones

Artystyczna wizja czarnej dziury pochłaniającej gwiazdę

Orbita gorącej plamey wokół Sagittarius A*

Mars near and far

A hypnotic golden spiral

Caught in a spiral

Planet SPECULOOS

Rising from the ashes

Milky Way Across the Desert

Wizualizacja wiatrów stratosferycznych w pobliżu południowego bieguna Jowisza

The Toby Jug Nebula as seen by the VLT and the VLTI

A Phenomenal View of a Phenomenal Spiral

The Milky Way above the ELT site

Once in a blue comet

Total solar eclipse, La Silla Observatory, 2019

Total solar eclipse, La Silla Observatory, 2019 (Panoramic image)

Strings by Starlight

Of trails and telescopes

La Silla’s Great Dane

ALMA’s dishes huddle together in the desolate landscape of Chile’s Atacama Desert

ALMA panorama

ESO telescopes spy a rare relic

Sculptor dwarf galaxy

Carina Nebula under moonlight

SPHERE maps the surface of Ceres

Zachód słońca nad Paranal z lotu ptaka

Artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy

Przelot Wings for Science nad APEX

The star cluster Messier 47

Two domes in the Atacama Desert

ALMA fish-eye

Atacama night sky revealed

Gazing at the Chilean night sky

Artystyczna wizja pierścieni wokół Chariklo

ESO marks 50 years of fruitful collaboration with Chile

The Laser Guide Star on the VLT

ALMA from the air

Cykl ewolucji gwiazdy podobnej do Słońca (z oznaczeniami)

ALMA from the air

ALMA from the air

ALMA from the air

Rapid Action Telescope for Transient Objects

Night sky at La Silla

La Silla ridge

ESO's VLT images the planetary nebula IC 1295

Młode gwiazdy w gromadzie otwartej NGC 2547

SEST at La Silla

Off the shoulder of Orion

La Silla under the Milky Way

VLT/VIMOS observations of the shock front in the remnant of the supernova SN 1006

Wirujące gwiazdy nad Yepun

Smugi gwiazd nad głową

Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)

Radiogalaktyka Centaurus A widziana przez ALMA

Comet Lovejoy over Santiago

VISTA spogląda daleko w kosmos

ALMA antenna transported to Chajnantor

The Chilean night sky from ALMA

Wide-field view of NGC 253 from the VLT Survey Telescope

The E-ELT at sunset (artist’s impression)

Szeroki widok na pole COSMOS

The flames of Betelgeuse

Wide-field view of the Meathook galaxy

Rare Moon green flash captured

Bridging the abyss

Collecting precious starlight*

Reflecting on the VLT

Aerial view of the VLT

Three ALMA antennas close together on Chajnantor

Cerro Paranal and Cerro Armazones in Chile

Lokalizacja ALMA

Artist’s impression of Corot-9b

Darth Vader’s galaxy, NGC 936

LMC snapped by the ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope

Rendering of the ELT

Transporting an Auxiliary Telescope

VLT Platform

The Paranal Observatory

The Moon over one VLT Auxiliary Telescope

The Milky Way Shines on Paranal

NTT windscreen

Artystyczna wizja Corot-7b

A close look at Betelgeuse

SEST on La Silla

Twisted spiral galaxy NGC 134

ESO's New Technology Telescope

SN 1987A and the Honeycomb Nebula

The centre of the active galaxy NGC 1097

Spiral galaxy NGC 6118

Chandra Deep Field South

How to become a star

Dome of Swiss 1.2-m Leonhard Euler Telescope

A Paranal sunset

The RCW 38 cluster in infrared light

Highlights of the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way

Computer simulation illustrating how a black hole looks like at different wavelengths

A spectacle of cosmic dust from Paranal

This is all that’s left of a giant star