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VLT Unit Telescope 2	Aerial View of Paranal Observatory	Paranal Platform	A Gravitational Einstein Ring

Panorama of the Road to Amazones	On the Road to Armazones	Unit Telescope and Auxiliary fellow	Moon and VLT

APEX Seen from Above	Snow on Paranal	Massimo Tarenghi receives the Tycho Brahe Prize	Wings for Science at ALMA OSF

Still from Matrix Workshop	Still from Matrix Workshop	Removing the primary mirror of UT4	Getting ready for recoating

Swmming	Winter is coming	Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, and Xavier Barcons, the President of the ESO Council	Presidents of Chile, Colombia, and Mexico with representatives of ESO inside the VLT

Spinning into action	Number of papers published using different observatories	Wild flowers in the Atacama Desert	Coudé spectrograph

Building the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	Model of the ESO Headquarters Building	ESO Vitacura Offices in 1969	La Silla view with Danish 1.5-metre Telescope under construction

Life at La Silla Observatory in 1969	Unpacking the primary mirror of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	Revolutionary design	A precursor of ESO's diplo-bag?

Artist’s impression of GJ 1214b	On the road to Chajnantor	Work being performed on an ALMA Transporter in the Transporter Shelter	ALMA antenna at OSF

A view of the ALMA OSF from above	Moonrise over the ALMA Operations Support Facility	The evolution of SN 1987A	The European Extremely Large Telescope

Paranal Observatory	ALMA High Site	Chajnantor - the site for ALMA	On the Way to ALMA

Workers at Chajnantor	Construction of the OSF	Construction of the OSF	Construction of the OSF

ALMA OSF construction	ALMA AOS construction on Chajnantor	ALMA AOS construction on Chajnantor	On the Way to ALMA