
Sculpting La Silla’s skies

ELT groundbreaking crater

Full view of Atacama at Night

Milky Way stretches across the Chilean night sky

Milky Way arcs the Chilean Atacama sky

The full Chilean night sky

The full Paranal night sky

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

Duże i większe

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

Juczne zwierzęta

Atacama moonset

Wszechświat sfotografowany w ultra HD

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

Gaia sfotografowana przez VST w drodze do miliarda gwiazd

Installation of VLT instrument MUSE

Working on ALMA

VLT's adaptive optics at work

VLT snap of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in October 2013

Kometa Rosetty

The path of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in October 2013

Bright night at Paranal

ALMA antenna and the Moon

Końska wizyta

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

Wyrzeźbiona przez masywne gwiazdy

Rozgwieżdżona noc nad 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

Nowe zabawki Maëlle

Europejskie anteny w ALMA Operations Support Facility

La Silla Observatory

The Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope in its dome at La Silla

Wzlot i upadek supernowej

ALMA antennas

Three planets dance over La Silla (annotated)

Gromada kulista NGC 6752

Zmarszczki na chilijskim niebie

ACA at dawn

ACA at dawn

Panorama of VISTA and view

Obserwatorium Astronomiczne 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

Srebro i błękit w Paranal

ALMA pinpoints early galaxies

ALMA pinpoints early galaxies

Pod wpływem Obłoków Magellana

Błyszcząca wstęga gwiazd - południowa część Drogi Mlecznej nad La Silla

Gwiazdy wirują wokół Rezydencji na Cerro Paranal

Chief scientific adviser to the European Commission, Anne Glover, visits ESO’s Paranal Observatory

Chwytając światło

Paranal Observatory - instruments (period 89)

Paranal Observatory - instruments (period 92)

Komety i spadająca gwiazda tańczą nad Paranal

Śnieg na pustyni Atakama

PARLA laser at the VLT

PARLA laser at the VLT

Moon trail

Startrails over the VLT platform

Circumpolar startrails over the Atacama

Laser i malowanie światłem

Międzygalaktyczna waga ciężka

APEX w świetle Księżyca

ALMA antennas on Chajnantor

From Antu to Yepun (the present-day image)

From Antu to Yepun (the historical image)

Swobodnie poruszająca się planeta CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9

Swobodnie poruszająca się planeta CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9

Swobodnie poruszająca się planeta CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9 (z zaznaczeniem)

Artystyczna wizja swobodnie poruszającej się planety CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9

Building the Paranal Residencia — from turbulence to tranquility (historical image)

Building the Paranal Residencia — From turbulence to tranquility (present day image)

Szerokie pole widzenia wokół gromady kulistej NGC 6362

Porównanie zdjęć gromady kulistej NGC 6362 z WFI i Hubble'a

Zdjęcie gromady kulistej NGC 6362 wykonane przez Kosmiczny Teleskop Hubble'a

Gromada kulista NGC 6362

Xavier Barcons at the ESO 50th anniversary gala event

Xavier Barcons at the ESO 50th anniversary gala event

Droga Mleczna oraz Alfa i Beta Centauri w tle 3,6-metrowego teleskopu na La Silla

Gala dla uczczenia 50 lat Europejskiego Obserwatorium Południowego (ESO)

Podpisywanie prototypowego segmentu zwierciadła dla E-ELT, dla uczczenia 50. rocznicy

Winner of the ESO anniversary competition — the Thor’s Helmet Nebula

A timeless sanctuary in Santiago (present-day image)

A timeless sanctuary in Santiago (historical image)

The globular star cluster Messier 4

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

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, pierwszy dom dla teleskopów ESO (złożenie zdjęć)

La Silla, pierwszy dom dla teleskopów ESO (aktualne zdjęcie)

La Silla, pierwszy dom dla teleskopów ESO (zdjęcie historyczne)

APEX site

Artystyczna wizja zachodu słońca na superziemi 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

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

HAWK-I image of NGC 4030

A gallery of spiral galaxies pictured in infrared light by HAWK-I (unannotated version)

HAWK-I image of NGC 1232

HAWK-I image of Messier 100

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 5247

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