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Chajnantor Plateau	Swimming in the desert	European assembly site	Transporter operator

ALMA antennas ready for action	Mechanical Workshop at La Silla Observatory	E-ELT M5 support system being tested	The ESO 3.6-metre telescope Under Construction

Early steps on the construction of the domes of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope and the 1.4-metre Coudé Auxiliary Telescope	Shared time	The location of the Hercules galaxy cluster	Site testing station in South Africa

Site Testing Station in Karoo, South Africa	Site Testing in Karoo, South Africa	Pioneering astronomical watch reaches for the stars at Paranal	Astronomy Olympics Reaches the Very Large Telescope

The President of the Czech Republic at the Paranal Residencia	The President of the Czech Republic in the VLT Control Room	The European Integration Facility at ALMA	Solargraph at ESO Headquarters

ALMA is taking shape at the AOS	Screenshot from the HISTORY Channel’s series of short stories featuring ESO telescopes	The Huanchaca Cultural Park	The New ALMA Santiago Central Office

First planet of extragalactic origin (artist’s impression)	A Solargraph taken from APEX at Chajnantor	Get the Hex Dance	Distant view of Chajnantor

Weekend visitors at Paranal	Cerro Armazones at night	Cerro Armazones at night	E-ELT site testing - Cerro Macon / Argentina

Light echoes from SN 1987A	The large format MUSE detector	The E-ELT Enclosure Inside	Pelicano: La Silla base camp, Oct.1966

ALMA Assembly Work at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory	La Silla - 1966 (East)	ALMA Assembly Work at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory	The E-ELT

N70 superbubble nebula in the LMC	ALMA Assembly Work at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory	VLT LGSF	The VISTA Camera

Eta Carinae	La Silla - 1966 (South)	ALMA Team at ESO Headquarters	VISTA Telescope

Moons of Saturn May Be Transient Objects	Atacama Desert near ALMA	Milky Way above Paranal observatory	First Symposium at ESO HO, 1980