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Very Large Telescope Ready for Action	Flying above the ALMA OSF	Highlights from the VST image of Omega Centauri	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	ALMA Antennas Reach Double Digits at Chajnantor	A Quartet of ALMA Antennas Placed Close Together

Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plain	Up Close and Personal with the Very Large Telescope	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)	The 2010 Perseids over the VLT

Building Connections with EVALSO	On the road to Armazones	An ALMA antenna at the OSF	Highlights from VISTA’s infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula

Antennas at the ALMA Operations Support Facility*	Star-forming region Gum 19	A view of Paranal at sunset from Armazones	APEX Image Calendar, August 2010 — APEX before sunset

A VLT Unit	Comet McNaught over Paranal	La Silla	The GigaGalaxy Zoom composite

The Planetary System in Gliese 581 (artist's impression)	Centaurus A (NGC 5128)	Look!	Star trails over VLT

High Power Laser test of VLT 4LGSF Laser Launch Telecope	ALMA antenna on a Lore transporter	Artists’s impression of one of more than 50 new exoplanets found by HARPS: the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b	European ALMA antenna brings total on Chajnantor to 16

Dramatic Sunset over the ALMA OSF	The Large, Flat Chajnantor Plateau	The disc around IRAS 13481-6124	The Milky Way and Constellations

La Silla Control Room	ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) Array Now in Google Earth	The Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope — VISTA	The Starburst Galaxy NGC 253