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Pandora’s Cluster (VLT view)	Planetary Conjunction over Paranal	The brown dwarf binary CFBDSIR 1458+10	ALMA Antennas Stand Together

A Galactic Petri Dish	The Long and Winding Road*	A disc around a massive baby star (artist's impression)	The Blinking Galaxy

An infrared/visible comparison view of Messier 83	The sky around Messier 83	Inside the VLT	ALMA antennas at OSF

3.6-metre telescope at La Silla	Chance discovery reveals star factories in the distant Universe	Night falling over Paranal	Comet McNaught, the Moon, Venus and the VLT

ALMA antennas and OSF at sunset	A VLT Unit Telescope and the Moon	The planet-hosting star CoRoT-7	The Trifid Nebula (full frame)

VLT Image of Supernova in Beautiful Spiral Galaxy NGC 1288	The Spiral Galaxy NGC 5584 and SN 2007af	The Overlooked Dwarf and its Apparent Companion	Comet McNaught and ATs

The Comet and the Telescopes	Larger Field around NGC 1313	Icy Exoplanet (artist's impression)	Pluto-Charon system

In Tarantula Territory (a)	A view of VLT in Paranal	Dome of the Swiss Telescope at La Silla	Admiring the Galaxy

Inside the MMB at Paranal	Panorama at the Mirror Maintenance Building	Panorama with Paranal in the distance	The Lost Galaxy

Spiral galaxy NGC 1637	Artist's impression of a gas giant planet forming in the disc around the young star HD 100546	PARLA laser at the VLT	Comet Lovejoy

ALMA Dwarfed by Mountain Peaks	Orion Watching Over ALMA	Artist’s impression of a vampire star and its victim	Artist’s impression of the quasar 3C 279

An ALMA Antenna on the Move	The NTT and the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	All Around Chajnantor — A 360-degree panorama	Architect’s rendering of the new ESO Headquarters Extension (daytime)

The crescent Moon and earthshine over ESO's Paranal Observatory	VFTS 102: the fastest rotating star	An image of the strange asteroid Lutetia from the ESA Rosetta probe	GRAAL on a Quest to Improve HAWK-I's Vision