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A 92-hour Long Spectrum	The Oxygen Abundance in the Bulge	Collision Between Galaxies (Artist's Impression)	Detecting Metals in Invisible Galaxies

False Colour Image of XMMU J2235.3-2557	SINFONI Observations of the Young Starforming Galaxies BX 404/405	Rotation of the disc in M 17	Brightness "Dips" Caused by Two Transiting Exoplanets

Properties of Known Transiting Exoplanets	Signatures of Carbon-13 and Nitrogen-15 in the Spectrum of Comet LINEAR (C/2000 WM1)	Velocity Distribution of the XLSS-03 Cluster	VLTI observations of the radii of four small stars

MOS observation of spiral galaxy NGC 4303	Faint, Distant Cluster of Galxies	Lyman-alpha Forest in HDF-S Quasar J2233-606	Geographical Map with VLT and ALMA Locations

FORS1 First Light - Distant cluster of galaxies	A Dwarf Galaxy With A Halo	Spectrum of Comet Hyakutake	First Images of Split Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3

Seventy-seven Dead Cows in the Desert	Model of the ESO Very Large Telescope	Harry van der Laan	Peeking

Contract signature with Interbeton	The ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla	The 1-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla	Copying plates at the Sky Atlas Laboratory

Alistair McPherson named as E-ELT Project Manager	Meeting of the Scientific Programmes Committee	President Eduardo Frei Montalva at the La Silla inauguration	First light of one of the VLT Unit Telescopes

VLT First Light	Reception at the Guesthouse	The La Silla aluminising plant in 1969	Illustration of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

Prince Philippe of Belgium	Prince Philippe of Belgium	Fisheye view of the South Pole	Raymond Wilson

Christoph Malin	Babak A. Tafreshi	First light for the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	The Helix Nebula in the constellation of Aquarius

Poster of Café & Kosmos 10 January 2012	50 years of reaching new heights in astronomy	The ESO 50th anniversary logo	Your Historical ESO Pictures

ESO Calendar 2012	Messenger issue 146	The galaxy NGC 253 in the constellation of Sculptor	Astronomy Podcast now in Multiple Languages