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Challenging journeys	ALMA antennas	ALMA antenna on a transporter	ALMA antennas

The occultation of the dwarf planet Eris in November 2010	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	Twilight at Paranal	360° panorama of the VLT platform at sunset	Around Abell 315

Dramatic Moonset	La Silla Observatory	Star factories in the distant Universe (artist’s impression)	VLTI tunnel

The Paranal observing platform in Chile	Chajnantor - the site for ALMA	E-ELT in its Enclosure	Penitentes Ice Formations

Trumpler 14 in the Carina Nebula	Cerro Armazones Observatory	ALMA central office	Small Garden Panorama

Panorama inside UT3's dome	Panorama inside the dome	Panorama inside a Unit Telescope	Panorama of VISTA from the inside

Inside VISTA	ALMA Antennae with Stunning Mountain Backdrop	La Silla	360 degrees Paranal panorama

Sunset at La Silla	Panorama of Residencia	PARLA laser at the VLT	ESO’s Paranal Observatory by night

AT3 at Paranal	VLT 4LGSF Laser Launch Telescope	Aerial view of ESO headquarters	Star trails at Cerro Armazones

ALMA antenna on a transporter	The Control Room of the 3.6-metre telescope	ALMA Front End Servicing Vehicle and Transporter	ALMA antennas on Chajnantor

Artists’s impression of one of more than 50 new exoplanets found by HARPS: the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b	The Galactic Centre above the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	Monuments of Science*	Contrast at Paranal Residencia

The Paranal Residencia	Partial Solar Eclipse over the VLT	European Commission and EIROforum pledge to extend collaboration	The Milky Way seen from the Atacama Desert