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UT2 recoating being transported for recoating	Preparing UT2 for recoating	Shooting Marco Polo documentary at ALMA	ESO headquarters in Garching during a Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 symposium, July 1994.

Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 symposium, July 1994	Meteorological station atop of La Montura	Staff Accommodation at La Silla	La Silla early construction

At home at La Silla	Worker during La Silla observatory construction	VLT first light press conference	The world watches

Announcement during VLT First Light press conference	Question time	Meeting in Paris, 1987	Remote control of the NTT in Garching

ALMA OSF panorama	Aerial view of Paranal in 1994	A bird's eye view of Paranal in 1994.	The VLT at Paranal Observatory

Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission, Anne Glover, visits ESO’s Paranal Observatory	The Crown Prince Couple of Denmark during their visit to ESO’s Paranal Observatory	Map of the positions of thousands of galaxies in the VIPERS survey	NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view of the dust disc around the young star HD 100546

Claus Madsen at La Silla (GPO)	Testing the ELT's Fifth Mirror (M5)	VLT DSM	Panorama of the ALMA Operational Support Facility

A wide-field view of the area around the Abell 901/902 supercluster	Reflection Nebula NGC 1999 in Orion	Cabling for the ALMA correlator	State-of-the-art digital filter circuit boards for the ALMA correlator

The globular cluster NGC 6388, observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope	The VST inauguration	Science in School — Issue 25 — Winter 2012	Richtfest marks successful progress with ESO extension building

Screenshot of ESOcast 49	Artist's impression of an ice water crystal	Artist's impression of an exoplanet	Science in School — Issue 24 — Autumn 2012

VLTI tunnel	Artist’s impression of the E-ELT at night	The ESO Council during their meeting in Garching on 11–12 June 2012	NTT Assembly

The VST	Construction of the Vitacura Offices	La Silla Hotel	Aerial view of La Silla Observatory, 1966

1987-paranal-storm - site-testing-ms-dpp	The ESO 1-metre Telescope	Coudé spectrograph on the ESO 1.52-metre Telescope	Comet Halley and the Milky Way