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8.2-m Zerodur Mirror: From Ship to Land	M1 Cell and Dummy Mirror Transportation	In the Atacama Desert	Paranal Mountain Platform

Inside the VLT control Building	Dusty Panamericana Road	Paranal Power Plant	Coating Plant

Removing the Vacuum Chamber	Arrival at Paranal	Installation of the Serrurier Struts	Lowering the Altitude Axis

Serrurier Strut	Entering the Enclosure	Lower Intermediate Structure of UT1	Close-up of the Paranal Platform

Southern View of the Paranal Platform	Aerial View of Paranal Observatory	ISAAC and SOFI	Paranal Observatory: Taking the Bus to the Mountain Top

Paranal Observatory: Unit Telescope no. 1	Installation of the UT2 Baseframe	Aligning the UT1 Intermediate Structures	A Generating Set for VLT

A Power-generating Set for VLT	The Planetary Nebula around Sakurai's Object	Extremely Distant Minor Planet 1992 QB1	schmidt-plate-insp-pizz

M1 Shipment to VLT, 1993	Peeking into SEST	Madsen and Blauuw	Tarenghi Speech

Sky Atlas Laboratory	Sky Atlas Laboratory	Sky Atlas Laboratory	Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 symposium, July 1994.

The VLT at Paranal Observatory	President Piñera inspects ALMA hardware	Map of the positions of thousands of galaxies in the VIPERS survey	ALMA Correlator

The new PARLA laser in operation at ESO’s Paranal Observatory	Delivery of the VLT Schott Mirror, 1993	Performers and crew from AIDA Night of the Proms 2012 visit ESO’s Headquarters	Filming The Eyes of the Atacama at the ALMA site

From the Dark Side of the Moon to Paranal	ESO 1-metre telescope	Japanese ALMA antenna	Dutch 0.9-metre telescope, 1979

Dusk at La Silla	Architectural model of the planned ESO Vitacura offices	Wide-field view of the sky around the globular star cluster Messier 55	ESO Headquarters Extension under Construction