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ALMA Antennas	ALMA Antennas	Welcome to ESO Headquarters	The Library at ESO Headquarters

The Czech President’s Galaxy	Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plain	An Ancient Cluster of Stars Against a Stunning Background	The ESO VLT Yepun Telescope Opening

A stellar black hole	TRAPPIST First Light Image of Omega Centauri	Moving ALMA antennas to the Atacama Compact Array pads	The Cluster of Galaxies Abell 315

The ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla at night	An ALMA antenna on Chajnantor	APEX, the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, on Chajnantor	VLT at Paranal

The GOODS-South field	Extracts from the VISTA infrared image of the Orion Nebula	Comet McNaught	Comet McNaught

Licancabur on the Way to ALMA	Chajnantor Panoramic View December 2005 *	ALMA antennas	FLAMES at the VLT

ALMA antennas	VLTs Stretch Into the Distance	Paranal-Gegenschein	The Laser Guide Star on the VLT

Nebula around star cluster RCW 38	The Earth-like Planet Gliese 581 c (artist's impression)	NGC 92 in H-alpha	DEM L 144 near N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Centaurus A – Field 2 (Halo)	Centaurus A – Field 1 (Shell)	Nebulae Near the Hot Wolf-Rayet Star BAT99-2 in the LMC	Close-up of N44C in the LMC

Interferometric observations: Fringes from two stars of different angular size	Interferometric observations: Change of fringes with increasing baseline	The Orion Nebula: The Jewel in the Sword	UVES at KUEYEN with cover partially lifted

Paranal Control Building	Chajnator under snow	The Very Large Telescope	ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla Observatory

Challenging journeys	ALMA antennas	ALMA antenna on a transporter	ALMA antennas

Unrecognisable Paranal Residencia	Twilight at Cerro Armazones	Wide-angle view of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	Garden and swimming pool at the Paranal Residencia