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Desert Lizard	DSS image	The SEST Fire	SINFONI Observations of the Circinus Galaxy

The central region of NGC 1068	The Highly Unstable Star Eta Carinae (Artist's Impression)	Centaurus A – Field 2 (Detail)	Stars Observed in the FEROS Programme (HR diagram)

The Subaru observations	The southern constellation Indus	Proxima Centauri - barely a real star	Joint Construction of the Giant Radio Telescope "ALMA" in Chile

UVES spectrograph assembly	First Infrared ESO Image of Comet Hale-Bopp	On the Desert Road	On the Old Panamericana on the Way to Paranal

On the Way to Paranal	The VLT Mirror Convoy Moves along the Seafront	The Convoy Drives through the Desert	The 8.2-m VLT Mirror: Finally in Paranal

The Convoy Arrives at the Base Camp	The Dummy Mirror is Uncovered	Testing the UT1 Mechanical Structure	The View form the Unit Telescope 1 Enclosure

Unit Telescope 1 Altitude Bearings	Flora	Unit Telescope 1 in its Enclosure	Paranal Base Camp

Paranal Access Road	Old Panamericana Road and ESO Paranal Surroundings	Unit Telescope 1 Structure	Telescope Foundations

The Coating Plant for the VLT	The Coating Plant for the ESO VLT	Testing the VLT Power Generators	Strange Comet Discovered at ESO

Comet Hyakutake	First Infrared ESO Image of Comet Hale-Bopp	Planetary Nebulae in NGC 1399	Saturn and the Giant White Spot

Most distant "normal'' galaxy known, G 0102 190	A supernova explodes 5 billion years ago	.58 meter mirror for the New Technology Telescope (NTT)	The ESO 16-m Very Large Telescope

Comet Halley's CO tails	ALMA image of comet factory around Oph-IRS 48	Exhibition Time	Support tech

Sky Atlas Laboratory	Sky Atlas Laboratory	Assembly of the ESO 1-metre telescope	Assembly of the ESO 1-metre telescope