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The Subaru observations	The southern constellation Indus	Proxima Centauri - barely a real star	Joint Construction of the Giant Radio Telescope "ALMA" in Chile

UVES spectrograph assembly	First Infrared ESO Image of Comet Hale-Bopp	On the Desert Road	On the Old Panamericana on the Way to Paranal

On the Way to Paranal	The VLT Mirror Convoy Moves along the Seafront	The Convoy Drives through the Desert	The 8.2-m VLT Mirror: Finally in Paranal

The Convoy Arrives at the Base Camp	The Dummy Mirror is Uncovered	Testing the UT1 Mechanical Structure	The View form the Unit Telescope 1 Enclosure

Unit Telescope 1 Altitude Bearings	Flora	Unit Telescope 1 in its Enclosure	Paranal Base Camp

Paranal Access Road	Old Panamericana Road and ESO Paranal Surroundings	Unit Telescope 1 Structure	Telescope Foundations

The Coating Plant for the VLT	The Coating Plant for the ESO VLT	Testing the VLT Power Generators	Strange Comet Discovered at ESO

Comet Hyakutake	First Infrared ESO Image of Comet Hale-Bopp	Planetary Nebulae in NGC 1399	Saturn and the Giant White Spot

Most distant "normal'' galaxy known, G 0102 190	The ESO 16-m Very Large Telescope	Exhibition Time	Support tech

Sky Atlas Laboratory	Sky Atlas Laboratory	Assembly of the ESO 1-metre telescope	Assembly of the ESO 1-metre telescope

Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope	Assembling the ESO 1-metre telescope	AT4 arrives Paranal

Rabbits in the Atacama Desert	The President of Austria, Heinz Fischer is presented with the book Europe to the Stars	The green bean galaxy J2240	Cerro Paranal in 1987

La Silla, 1975	An ALMA Warm Cartridge Assembly (WCA)	Poster of Café & Kosmos 15 may 2012	ESO's 50th Anniversary logo Moonbounced