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Artist impression of the E-ELT dome	Chajnantor peaks	The four ESO Observatories	OmegaCAM

The KMOS spectrograph before shipping to Chile	Cell removal	Adriaan Blaauw at the contract signature with Interbeton	The ESO 1.52-metre telescope

Taking a break	Foundations of the dome of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	Lunch Break during the VLT Site Testing	Site testing for the VLT atop Cerro Armazones

Model of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope	VISTA view of the newly discovered open star cluster VVV CL003 beyond the galactic centre	ESO Council Meeting, June 2011	Inauguration of the new ESO exhibition at the Museum of Taltal

The Chilean Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics visits Paranal	Wide-field view of the sky around the brown dwarf binary CFBDSIR 1458+10	A VLT Auxiliary Telescopes watches the Milky Way setting	A Wide-field view of the sky around the young star T Cha (annotated)

Artist's impression of a dark gamma-ray burst	Infrared/visible comparison of the VISTA Tarantula Nebula image	Construction of the ALMA Santiago Central Office building at Vitacura	La Silla Observatory

The Schmidt Telescope in Operation	The Milky Way in Black and White	The Schmidt Telescope in Operation	Access Road to the ALMA Site

E-ELT scaled segmented mirror	ALMA-Bordeaux	E-ELT scaled segmented mirror	E-ELT scaled segmented mirror

E-ELT scaled segmented mirror	La Silla Observatory	VLT M1 Mirror	E-ELT scaled segmented mirror

View of the Galactic Plane from the ATLASGAL survey	LABOCA on APEX	Screenshot of ESOcast 56	PROED 2009

Residencia	Nuno Crato Visits Paranal	Denmark Confirms Participation in E-ELT	Wide-field view of the sky around the spiral galaxy NGC 1187

Wide-field view of the sky around the quasar HE0109-3518	La Silla staff in 1980	Antenna and transporter	Bochum 0.61-metre telescope

Bochum 0.61-metre telescope and control room	ESO 3.6-metre telescope	Lama in the ALMA area	Marseille 0.36-metre Telescope