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Assembly of the ESO 1-metre telescope	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope

AT4 arrives Paranal	Rabbits in the Atacama Desert	The President of Austria, Heinz Fischer is presented with the book Europe to the Stars	The green bean galaxy J2240

Cerro Paranal in 1987	La Silla, 1975	An ALMA Warm Cartridge Assembly (WCA)	Poster of Café & Kosmos 15 may 2012

ESO's 50th Anniversary logo Moonbounced	ESO Headquarters Extension plans	The primary mirror of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	The Santiago office under construction

Hans-Emil Schuster and Lodewijk Woltjer	Hans-Emil Schuster	La Silla observatory Inauguration	Break at the Atlas Laboratory

Building La Silla Observatory	The ALMA Santiago Central Office	Poster of Café & Kosmos 14 March 2012	Artists’s impression of the Moon showing earthshine

La Silla by moonlight	A VLT mirror goes back to work	Solargraph at the VLT	The Mirror Maintenance Building

Another ALMA antenna takes its place at Chajnantor	UMCE Astronomy School for Teachers	UMCE Astronomy School for Teachers	The first of six Band 5 receivers for ALMA

VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey view of the Tarantula Nebula (annotated version)	ESO's Site testing at Rockdale Mountain	Vizcachas panorama	Solar Mass Star Workshop

A European ALMA antenna takes shape	E-ELT site testing - Cerro Macon / Argentina	E-ELT site testing - Roque de los Muchachos / La Palma, Spain	VLT M1 Production at Schott

An ALMA antenna en route to the plateau of Chajnantor for the first time	The first journey of an ALMA antenna to the plateau of Chajnantor	Neptune's 'Hot' South Pole (VISIR/VLT)	Waking up to science!

Two Quasars with their Host Galaxy	First fringes of Sirius with VLTI	UVES assembly	M1 Convoy: Past the Gates

M1 Mirror: Home	From Sea to Land	M1 Convoy: Almost There	Bumps on the Road