
VISTA view of the newly discovered globular cluster VVV CL001 and its brighter companion

Artist’s impression of galaxies at the end of the era of reionisation (artist’s impression)

Council Room at the ESO Headquarters

Council room at the ESO Headquarters

Artists’s impression of one of more than 50 new exoplanets found by HARPS: the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b

Vidvinkelbild av himlen omkring jätteklumpen LAB-1

The most distant quasar

The ELT (artist's impression)

Night begins at Paranal Observatory

Beta Pictoris b (artist’s impression)

Cerro Armazones night-time panorama*

VLT Unit and Auxiliary Telescope at Paranal

SEST at La Silla

An ALMA antenna on Chajnantor*

Details of the VISTA Flame Nebula image

Transporting an Auxiliary Telescope

Evening view of Paranal and the VLT

Road to La Silla

Group portrait of the VLT with laser beam

Road to La Silla

La Silla telescopes in twilight

Comet McNaught over the VLT platform

ESO 3.6-metre telescope – the dome

Zodiacal light at Paranal

Cosmic interactions

Dust cloud in a R CrB star (artist's impression)

Jets from a brown dwarf (artist's impression)

The inner winds of Eta Carinae

A cometary "aurora" at Paranal

VLT Auxiliary Telescope

Asymmetric ashes (artist's impression)

The APEX Telescope

New brown dwarf in the solar neighbourhood (artist's impression)

Paranal observing platform with AT1 and AT2

Mare Humorum

East of Sinus Iridum

En koi-smisk fisk

En superdators hem på Chajnantorplatån

Konstnärlig gestaltning av systemet med det mest massiva hålet som har bildats vid en stjärnkollaps i Vintergatan

Hur man hittar ExTra jordlika planeter

En futuristisk transportör

Vatten i HL Tauris skiva

Ensam i öknen

Insidan av ELT:s kupol

Aerial image of the VLT

Spindelvävsgalaxens protohop

Venus över BlackGEM-teleskopen

Solpelare över ALMA

Månsken över Paranal

Tätaste paret av supermassiva svarta hål observerat med MUSE

Jämförelse av de två första bilderna av svarta hål

Asteroiden Kleopatra från olika vinklar

NGC 4303 observerad med MUSE på ESO:s VLT i olika våglängder

Paranal Observatory at dusk

Betelgeuses yta före och under försvagningen 2019–2020 (med text)

Konstnärlig gestaltning av en stjärna som slits sönder av tidvattenkrafter vid ett supermassivt svart hål

En natt i Atacamaöknen

Sfärer på sfärer

Himmelsområden som påverkas mest av satellitkonstellationer

Konstnärlig tolkning av stjärnsystemet WDJ0914+1914

Människan och Vintergatan

Total solar eclipse, La Silla Observatory, 2019

Första ljus för det europeiska teleskopet i SPECULOOS Southern Observatory

A fulldome family portrait

The heart of the Milky Way

The colours of Antu

A planet hunter and its neighbour

Galaxy cluster MACS j1149.5+223

Hubble and ALMA image of MACS J1149.5+2223

Learn about the ELT

ESON members visit the Universe at the ESO Supernova

ESON members watch a show at the ESO Supernova

The ELT theme in The Living Universe

Venus shines on

The NTT and beyond

Stjärnbanor nära Vintergatans mitt (illustration)

Star forming gas clouds in NGC 6822

Datorsimulering av en Lyman alfa-blobb

View above the Swedish/ESO Submillimetre Telescope

Daytime perspective of La Silla

Elektra: a new triple asteroid

Venus and the Moon strike a pose

The VLT four laser guide stars

Ceres ljusa fläckar avbildade av sonden Dawn (rymdkonstnärs tolkning)

High and mighty

Den protoplanetära skivan med namnet det flygande tefatet omkring 2MASS J16281370-2431391

The Vitacura Guesthouse

Bild av XXL:s sydliga fält i röntgenstrålning

Bild från VLT:s SPHERE på omgivningarna omkring VY Canis Majoris

ALMA bevittnar en galax som bildas i det unga universum

ALMA bevittnar en galax som bildas i det unga universum (med etiketter)

En titt in i hjärtat av Mira och dess partner

Hur dubbelstjärnan GG Tauri-A skulle kunna se ut

The little planet of the ESO Headquarters

A dwarf among giants

The Geyser El Tatio

Three little helpers

A lonely Auxiliary Telescope

VLT tracks Rosetta's comet

VLT silhouettes

The Milky Way over Cerro Paranal

Colourful VLT panorama

The curves of ESO’s Headquarters

Very large silhouette at sunset

A site with a view

Månsken och zodiakalljus över La Silla

Warehouses at Paranal

View inside a VLT Unit Telescope

Panoramic view inside the dome

Super-thin mirror under test at ESO

Den klotformiga stjärnhopen NGC 6388 observerad av ESO

Star trails over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

Two planet-hunters snapped at La Silla

The ESO 1.52-metre telescope

Getting the VLT ready for even sharper images

Kosmiska stoftmoln i Messier 78

Vintergatans omgivande mörka materia

ALMA observerar en ring runt den ljusstarka stjärnan Fomalhaut

Arkitektens bild av utbyggnaden till ESO:s nya högkvarter (nattetid)

The VLT goes lion hunting

Alignment of the VLTI

ALMA antennas

Starry skies above La Silla

First 7-metre ALMA antenna arrives at Chajnantor

Galactic bridge between Kueyen and Melipal

Hiding in plain sight — the elusive Carina dwarf galaxy

A blood Moon over ESO’s Headquarters

By the light of the Moon

The VLT Survey Telescope observing on a moonlit night

OmegaCAM, the monster camera of the VLT Survey Telescope

A new era for astronomy

Monuments of science*

IRAS 13481-6124 and its cradle

Planet around Beta Pictoris

Moving ALMA antennas to the Atacama Compact Array pads

An infrared/visible comparison view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula

VLT telescopes at Paranal

VLT Auxiliary Telescope at Paranal at sunset

NTT at La Silla

La Silla telescope ring

An ALMA antenna on Chajnantor

Moonlit panorama at La Silla

Moonlit panorama at La Silla

Moonlit panorama at La Silla

APEX image calendar, July 2010 — APEX Chajnantor Facilities seen from Cerro Chajnantor

The Moon in conjunction with Venus and Jupiter (artistic composition)

SEST and control

La Silla Observatory

APEX

Paranal in Atacama desert

Mount Paranal

VLT Auxiliary Telescope *

Very Large Telescope

Wide angle view of APEX antenna

Comet McNaught

Telescopes at La Silla

VLT platform

Paranal Observatory – instruments

VLT

Chajnantor plateau, APEX and ALMA AOS

A trio of super-Earths (artist's impression)

SN 2006X, before and after the Type Ia Supernova explosion (artist's impression)

The ALMA prototype antennas

Larger field around NGC 1313

The Be star Alpha Arae (artist's impression)

The Alcatel Alenia Space/ European Industrial Engineering prototype antenna

ALMA prototype antenna VertexRSI on the ATF Test Site at VLA (New Mexico, USA)

In Tarantula territory (c)

Barred galaxy NGC 1365

Galaxgruppen NGC 3640

Närkontakter av det galaktiska slaget

Ett ramverk för storhet

Kometen C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) viftar med svansen

Kometen C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) och dess svansar

Kometen C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) går ner vid Paranalobservatoriet

En färgstark vy av kometen C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)

Ett filament i den kosmiska väven

Ny laserskarp syn för teleskopen på Paranal

Utprovning av Paranals lasrar

Testning av Paranals nya lasrar

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Perfekt inramning

Svamplika teleskop fångar kosmiska explosioner

Under ett täcke av snö

Vad gömmer sig i en nebulosas namn?

Science and Nature at the ELT

The ELT, step by step

The cranes of the ELT

The ELT's skeleton

Supporting the ELT's main mirror

Looking into the dome of the ELT

ELT: A rising giant

Bird's-eye view of the ELT

Biggest eye on the sky - the ELT

Journey to the Center of the ELT

A base for a tower for the mirrors of the ELT

A new perspective on scaffolding

En Vintergata till middag?

Ett torn för speglar

Stjärnan WOH G64 och en konstnärlig gestaltning

Läget för stjärnan WOH G64 i det Stora Magellanska molnet

Stjärnan WOH G64 fotograferad med VLTI

Att fånga universum med laserskarp precision

Kamouflerade antenner

NTT står vakt

Galaxen NGC 1386 sedd med VLT Survey Telescope

En galaktisk föryngring

Galaxen NGC 1386 sedd med ALMA

Galaxen NGC 1386 sedd med VLT Survey Telescope och ALMA

Kometen Tsuchinshan-ATLAS över ESO Supernova

Southern Cross above ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla

The emu in the sky

Fyrverkerier av nyfödda stjärnor

Månen i nytt ljus

Oväntade grannar

Växer dag för dag

Förlorad i stjärnornas barnkammare

Detaljerade bilder på R Dorados yta

Detaljerade bilder på R Dorados yta (utan text)

Vidvinkelbild av himlen runt stjärnan R Doradus

An astrophysical robbery

The Hydra I cluster

Älskling, jag krympte Very Large Telescope

Att jaga solnedgångar och exoplaneter

Hur man hittar nyfödda stjärnor

Att leta efter röken efter elden

M1-cellen inuti ELT-kupolen

Delar av ELT:s M1-cell

Det svarta hålet i centrum av galaxen SDSS1335+0728 vaknar upp (konstnärlig gestaltning)

Tårar på himlen

BlackGEM söker efter kosmiska ädelstenar

Planetbildande skivor i tre gasmoln i Vintergatan

Konstnärlig gestaltning av WD 0816-310, en magnetisk vit dvärg med ett metalliskt ärr