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Artist’s impression of sunset on the super-Earth world Gliese 667 Cc	Wish You Were Here?	Melipal — the VLT Unit Telescope 3	Snow at the Chajnantor plateau

Snow at the Chajnantor plateau	ALMA 7-metre antenna on a transporter	Boldly going up Cerro Paranal	The Heart of the Milky Way, for Valentine’s Day

A Drive Through Time — How telescopes, and cars, have changed at La Silla	Barred Spiral Galaxy Swirls in the Night Sky	Infrared/visible light comparison view of the Helix Nebula	ALMA’s Grand Antennas

The Milky Way over the 1.54-metre Danish Telescope at La Silla	El Gordo: a massive distant merging galaxy cluster	El Gordo: a massive distant merging galaxy cluster	Mapping Dark Matter in Galaxies

A Glimpse into the Past — Then and Now at La Silla Observatory	Inside Euler's Head — Or how to see a telescope through the walls of its dome	Llullaillaco, Clear as Day	ALMA's World at Night (full panorama)

The VLT’s Next-generation Laser Launch Telescope	A Double Green Flash	Working at ALMA, Day and Night	Portrait of an Imperfect but Beautiful Spiral

Flying above the ALMA Site: The Operations Support Facility	All Four VLT Unit Telescopes Working as One	Santiago Guesthouse Panorama	Red Moon Rising

VISTA Finds Star Clusters Galore	European ALMA antenna brings total on Chajnantor to 16	Very Large Telescope Ready for Action	Flying above the ALMA OSF

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)	The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)	The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)	The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)	The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)	First 7-metre ALMA Antenna Handed Over to Observatory	A Quartet of ALMA Antennas Placed Close Together

Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plain	Up Close and Personal with the Very Large Telescope	A gallery of spiral galaxies pictured in infrared light by HAWK-I (annotated version)	HAWK-I image of NGC 5247

HAWK-I image of Messier 100	HAWK-I image of NGC 1300	HAWK-I image of NGC 4030	HAWK-I image of NGC 2997

HAWK-I image of NGC 1232	A gallery of spiral galaxies pictured in infrared light by HAWK-I (unannotated version)	Arp 271 — Galaxies Drawn Together*	Wide Field Imager image of Westerlund 1 (unannotated)