Artist’s impression of Mars four billion years ago
VLT Laser Guide Star
The Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
Auxiliary Telescope under the Milky Way in UHD
ALMA antennas
ALMA antennas
Cosmic wonder over the NTT
Panoramic shot of the VLT platform
SEST with Large Magellanic Cloud
Star trails over Atacama Desert Cacti
Fish-eye view of La Silla shown in UHD
Milky Way stretches over ALMA in UHD panorama
La Silla shown in UHD
Fish-eye view of La Silla telescopes shown in UHD
Deep fiery sunset at Paranal
A milky arc over Paranal
Antarctic air visits Paranal
Excerpts from a VST image of the Lagoon Nebula
ALMA against the stars
The calm before the storm
Building ALMA
ALMA against the stars
Antenna against the stars
Milky Way from La Silla
Beaming into the sky
An APEX view of star formation in the Orion Nebula
Panorama of Cerro Murphy
La Silla under the stars
Sunset at Paranal Observatory
Setting the dark on fire
Artist’s impression of the surface of the dwarf planet Makemake
One picture, many stories
The planetary nebula Fleming 1 seen with ESO’s Very Large Telescope
Artist’s impression of the planet around Alpha Centauri B
From Cosmic Spare Tyre to Ethereal Blossom
The Extremely Large Telescope (annotated)
VLT image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1187
VISTA infrared image of the globular star cluster Messier 55
The Milky Way over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope
A dusting of snow in the Atacama Desert
Spinning into action
Christmas comet Lovejoy captured at Paranal
The Vela supernova remnant
Stars trails over La Silla
VLT observes the Antennae Galaxies
ALMA antennas
First European ALMA antenna handed over to Joint ALMA Observatory
First European ALMA antenna handed over to Joint ALMA Observatory
First European ALMA antenna handed over to Joint ALMA Observatory
First European ALMA antenna handed over to Joint ALMA Observatory
First European ALMA antenna handed over to Joint ALMA Observatory
First European ALMA antenna handed over to Joint ALMA Observatory
First European ALMA antenna handed over to Joint ALMA Observatory
The VLT platform
Fish-eye view of the Southern Sky
ALMA: greater than the sum of its parts
Artist’s impression of the disc around the young star T Cha
The Carina Nebula around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22
Galactic bridge
TRAPPIST–South first light image of the Tarantula Nebula
Sunset at Cerro Armazones
ALMA site
VLT Unit and Auxiliary Telescope at Paranal
VLT at Paranal
SEST at La Silla
SEST at La Silla
The first three ALMA antennas at the Array Operations Site (AOS) on Chajnantor*
Two ALMA antennas on Chajnantor
ALMA antenna at OSF
APEX image calendar, October 2010 — Sun avoidance*
The cosmic bat — NGC 1788
Star-forming region NGC 346
A dwarf in the Fornax cluster
The black hole inside NGC 300 X-1 (artist’s impression)
The Extremely Large Telescope
The hidden fires of the Flame Nebula (full frame)
Comet McNaught over AT
The Milky Way galaxy
Chajnantor, with APEX
La Silla telescopes
Comet McNaught
Paranal Observatory
Paranal platform as night sets in
The Tarantula Nebula
The Sombrero Galaxy
Milky Way above the VLT platform
Adding an “artificial” star to the multitude in the sky
Milky Way over Paranal
Paranal Observatory
Paranal and the Basecamp *
Residencia in Paranal
An ALMA antenna en route to the plateau of Chajnantor for the first time
Artist's impression of the newly discovered planetary system Gliese 581
Irregular galaxy NGC 55
The Carina Nebula *
A laser comb for astronomy
Increasing the odds of the sweep
First light of the VLT Laser Guide Star
The super star cluster Westerlund 1
Spiral galaxy NGC 1097
LMC region near the Tarantula Nebula
Preparing for observations at Paranal
The Dumbbell Nebula
The Dumbbell Nebula
A giant ghostly bird
Perched on top of the world
A planet and its Trojan orbiting a star in the PDS 70 system (annotated)
A cosmic master of disguise
What’s that coming over the hill? It’s ALMA!
Water in the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis (artist’s impression)
The new skyline of Cerro Armazones – panorama
Asteroid Didymos before the DART impact
Wispy dark clouds
The golden era to study stellar births
Shuttered in! Behind the VLT's high-tech windscreens
Searching for Gems
Bright planets imaged as La Silla restarts observations
SPHERE image of the inner disc around AB Aurigae
Ripples and Shells
The Stars of the Milky Way
The Large Magellanic Cloud revealed by VISTA
Flare at Paranal
Jewels of the Chilean night sky
R Aquarii peculiar stellar relationship captured by SPHERE
ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain
Neptune from the VLT with MUSE/GALACSI Narrow Field Mode adaptive optics
Loops over La Silla
ALMA Reveals Inner Web of Stellar Nursery
Close-up of star near a supermassive black hole (artist’s impression)
Variable stars close to the galactic centre
The sky around the star formation region RCW 106
The Flying Saucer protoplanetary disc around 2MASS J16281370-2431391
The ESO 3.6-metre telescope and the Milky Way
Celestial blanket
The Milky Way arc over the VISTA in UHD
ALMA antennas
The Wild Duck cluster
ALMA antennas
Dizzying star trails over SEST
Galactic Atacama
The 66-antenna ALMA array
Auxiliary Telescope against a setting Sun
Very Large Telescope at sunset
Milky Way shines over snowy La Silla
Sun's light glinting over APEX
Golden hour at Paranal
Wide Field Imager view of a Milky Way look-alike, NGC 6744
The VLT in action
HAWK-I infrared image of the spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365*
The planetary system around the Sun-like star HD 10180 (artist’s impression)
Aerial view of Paranal Observatory
The Milky Way over Paranal
Dramatic moonset
APEX image calendar, September 2010 — Chajnantor from above
The future ALMA array on Chajnantor (artist’s rendering)
SEST
VLT platform
A supernova duet in NGC 1448
The Trapezium cluster
La Silla Observatory
An ALMA antenna en route to the plateau of Chajnantor for the first time
A plume on Betelgeuse (artist’s impression)
The rim of RCW 86
A curious pair of galaxies
SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud
The starburst spiral galaxy NGC 1792
The ISAAC infrared images of Messier 16
Panoramic view of the Paranal area*
View towards the Great Attractor
Star-forming region RCW38 in the Milky Way
A throne fit for the world’s largest telescope mirror
A galactic fountain
A slice of moon cheese, anyone?
A magical night in the Atacama Desert
An ExTrA special planet hunter
A scarlet cosmic sea
Hotspots found around young binary stars
La Silla Family Photo
A cosmic quartet
Five galaxies as seen with MUSE on ESO’s VLT at several wavelengths of light
Brilliant Halo at La Silla
Downslope at La Silla
MOSAIC model
An Otherworldly Glow
Arching over ALMA
Unassuming beauty
SPHERE's view of Betelgeuse in December 2019
ALMA image of HD101584
Going Underground
A Coffee Break — La Silla Style
Surveying the skies
The Carina Nebula in infrared light
MUSE image of the Saturn Nebula
True shape of the Boomerang
Artist’s rendering of the ELT in operation
The active galaxy Markarian 1018
Comet Lovejoy visits La Silla
The star cluster Messier 18 and its surroundings
Artist’s impression of cold intergalactic rain
The glowing gas cloud LHA 120-N55 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
The most powerful laser guide star system in the world sees first light at the Paranal Observatory
La Silla dawn kisses the Milky Way
Artist’s impression of the hottest and most massive touching double star
A microlensing mystery
The dusty cloud G2 passes the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
The Great Dane
New dawn at La Silla
SEST at La Silla
La Silla in moonlight
La Silla waking up
View from the NTT
MUSE view of the ram-pressure stripped galaxy ESO 137-001
A Unit Telescope and an Auxiliary Telescope in UHD
Alien landscape
ALMA antennas
ALMA antennas
Dancing telescopes
Star rain in the desert
La Silla Observatory
Large Magellanic Cloud captured between a Unit Telescope
Gazing at the wonder of our Universe
The star formation region NGC 2035 imaged by the ESO Very Large Telescope
Telescopes at ESO's first site in Chile: the La Silla Observatory
ESO's Paranal Observatory: the VLT's Laser Guide Star and star trails
Milky Way above ALMA
The Paranal Observatory
Paranal beneath the Milky Way
