- That ESO’s observatories and the skies above them provide incredible photo opportunities
- That ESO has a Flickr group called Your ESO Pictures
- Which of Your ESO Pictures ESO’s outreach team chose as their favourites and why
![Sunset VLT](https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/ats-sunset-rain-fullres-cc.jpg)
Photographer: Juan-Carlos Munoz-Mateos
![SEST blue](https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/42671537382_87df0a1fcd_o-CC.jpg)
Photographer: Carlos A. Durán.
![](https://www.eso.org/public/archives/static/blog/our-favourite-astronomical-images/36255728935_f30a8560fb_o.jpg)
Photographer: Bill Davis
![Cerro Paranal sunset](https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/1510-x-t1-2113-cc.jpg)
Photographer: Ade Russell
![Guided by the light](https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/DSC02271-CC.jpg)
Photographer: Daniele Gasparri
![Pacman and the Moon](https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/6146642991-0f8ba67f3e-o-CC.jpg)
Photographer: Eric Lagadec
![ALMA in the snow](https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/Snow-CC.jpg)
Photographer: Sergio Otarola
![Light play at ALMA](https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/25887151873_3602bb82ac_o-CC.jpg)
Photographer: Juan Carlos Rojas
![ALMA reflection](https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/27125960757_94665941a0_o-CC.jpg)
Photographer: Juan Carlos Rojas
![](https://www.eso.org/public/archives/static/blog/our-favourite-astronomical-images/26397665532_076620012d_o.jpg)
Photographer: Juan Carlos Rojas
![Fox at ALMA site](https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/fox-cc.jpg)
Photographer: Peter Pedersen
![The Milky Way from Paranal](https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/mw_residencia_corridor-cc.jpg)
Photographer: Juan-Carlos Munos-Mateos
Would you like to see even more spectacular astronomical photographs? Perhaps you have your own ESO images that you would like to share? Have a look at the Your ESO Pictures Flickr group to find out more.
Biography Nicole Shearer
Among other roles, Nicole Shearer works as a Public Information Officer assistant at the European Southern Observatory. She studied Physics and Astronomy at Durham University, specialising in the public communication of astronomy. For ESO she develops various public engagement products, and helped with the preparation and testing of the education programme for the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre. Previously she worked in the Education department of the European Space Agency.