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Highlights of VISTA’s deep infrared view of the COSMOS field	Hans-Emil Schuster	ESO 1-metre Schmidt Telescope	ESO Vitacura Offices in 1969

The ESO 3.6-metre telescope building under construction	Contract signing between ESO and Interbeton	Life at La Silla Observatory in 1969	Prince Philippe of Belgium

A lateral view of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope model	Wide-field view of the Hercules galaxy cluster	Wide-field image of the sky around the Fried Egg nebula	Rare storm over Paranal

Wide-field view of the sky around NGC 3169 and NGC 3166	“La Portada” in Antofagasta	The Coast of Antofagasta	Hubble infrared image of the most remote mature cluster of galaxies yet found

Wide-field view of the sky around the remote cluster CL J1449+0856	Wide-field view of the field around NGC 7252: the Atoms-for-Peace galaxy	Extracts from the VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey view of the Tarantula Nebula	Opening VISTA

Filming at Paranal	Big and Bigger Telescopes	E-ELT Active Segmented Mirror	Paranal Liquid Nitrogen Facility

ALMA Antenna Docking Pad	The ALMA Array - 3D Rendering	The two ALMA antennas	The Merging System Arp 220

A Rotating Giant Cloud around An Infant Galaxy	Atacama Shadows	View of La Silla	ALMA and VLT image of comet factory around Oph-IRS 48

Giacconi	Adaptive Optics at Play	VLT Auxiliary Telescopes	Assembly of the ESO 1-metre telescope

Gully at ALMA site	Media interviews during ESO's VLT first light press conference	Journalist at ESO's VLT first light press conference	Guests at the ALMA inauguration on a transporter

50 Years of ESO - Group Photo	Students at ESO headquarters in Garching	Part of the supernova remnant SN 1006 seen with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope	The green bean galaxy J2240 (annotated)

EIROforum General Assembly 2012	Book cover "The Jewel on the Mountaintop"	Hot and brilliant O stars in star-forming regions	An Oasis for Astronomers (side-by-side composite)

VLTI tunnel	VLTI tunnel	ALMA antenna in the desert	Poster of Café & Kosmos 12 June 2012