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Annette Schavan at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Xavier Barcons at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Xavier Barcons at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Catherine Cesarsky at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event

Lodewijk Woltjer and Tim de Zeeuw	Joe Liske and an E-ELT segment	The signed E-ELT segment	Pat Roche and Adrian Russell at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event

Jan Palous at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Lars Lindberg Christensen at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Pierre Cox and Thijs de Graauw at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Richard Hook and Eric Emsellem at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event

Bruno Leibundgut at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Jorge Melnick and Roberto Gilmozzi at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Bruno Leibundgut at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Mark Casali and Joana Correia at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event

Didier Queloz at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Anaëlle Maury and Laurent Vigroux at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Brian Schmidt and Michel Mayor at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Brian Schmidt and Michel Mayor at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event

Brian Schmidt and Michel Mayor at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Tim de Zeeuw at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	The Milky Way and Alpha and Beta Centauri behind the 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla	Lodewijk Woltjer at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event

Brian Schmidt at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Annette Schavan at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Wolfgang Heubisch at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Xavier Barcons and the Orion Nebula at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event

Xavier Barcons and the Eagle Nebula at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	The ceiling of the Kaisersaal	John Womersley at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event	Just before the dinner at the ESO 50th Anniversary Gala Event

Winner of the ESO anniversary competition — the Thor’s Helmet Nebula	A Timeless Sanctuary in Santiago (historical image)	A Timeless Sanctuary in Santiago (present-day image)	The globular star cluster Messier 4

Wide-field view of the sky around the globular star cluster Messier 4	NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the centre of Messier 4	The globular star cluster Messier 4: and the location of a curious star	A Surprising Superbubble

Laser Guide Star Sweeps Across a Starry Sky	From a Dirt Track to the World’s Leading Observatory (Historical)	From a Dirt Track to the World’s Leading Observatory (Present)	From a Dirt Track to the World’s Leading Observatory (side-by-side composite)

Red Cocoon Harbours Young Stars	Computing at ESO Through the Ages	Computing at ESO Through the Ages	La Silla

La Silla, the First Home for ESO’s Telescopes (historical image)	La Silla, the First Home for ESO’s Telescopes (present-day image)	La Silla, the First Home for ESO’s Telescopes (side-by-side composite)	APEX site