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Artist’s impression of galaxies at the end of the era of reionisation (artist’s impression)	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	Closing in on a giant space blob

Wide-field view of the sky around a giant space blob	The E-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*

Zodiacal Light over La Silla	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	East of Sinus Iridum	Mare Humorum	Warehouses at Paranal

View inside a VLT Unit Telescope	Panoramic view inside the dome	Super-thin Mirror Under Test at ESO	The globular cluster NGC 6388 observed by the European Southern Observatory

Star trails over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	Two Planet-hunters Snapped at La Silla	Winner of the Tweet Your Way to the VLT! anniversary competition	The ESO 1.52-metre telescope

Getting the VLT Ready for Even Sharper Images	Cosmic dust clouds in Messier 78	Artist’s impression of the expected dark matter distribution around the Milky Way	ALMA observes a ring around the bright star Fomalhaut

Architect’s rendering of the new ESO Headquarters Extension (nighttime)	The VLT four laser guide	The VLT goes lion hunting	Alignment of the VLTI