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| An image of the strange asteroid Lutetia from the ESA Rosetta probe |
GRAAL on a Quest to Improve HAWK-I's Vision |
VISTA view of the newly discovered globular cluster VVV CL001 and its brighter companion |
Full-size mock-up of the E-ELT mirror |
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| Artist’s impression of galaxies at the end of the era of reionisation (artist’s impression) |
Council Room at the ESO Headquarters |
Artists’s impression of one of more than 50 new exoplanets found by HARPS: the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b |
Closing in on a giant space blob |
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| Wide-field view of the sky around a giant space blob |
The most distant quasar |
The E-ELT (artist's impression) |
Night Begins at Paranal Observatory |
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| Beta Pictoris b (artist’s impression) |
Cerro Armazones night-time panorama* |
VLT Unit and Auxiliary Telescope at Paranal |
SEST at La Silla |
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| An ALMA antenna on Chajnantor* |
Zodiacal Light over La Silla |
Details of the VISTA Flame Nebula image |
Transporting an Auxiliary Telescope |
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| Evening view of Paranal and the VLT |
Road to La Silla |
Group Portrait of the VLT with Laser Beam |
Road to La Silla |
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| La Silla Telescopes in Twilight |
Comet McNaught over the VLT platform |
ESO 3.6-metre telescope - The Dome |
Zodiacal Light at Paranal |
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| Cosmic Interactions |
Dust Cloud in a R CrB Star (Artist's Impression) |
Jets from a Brown Dwarf (artist's impression) |
The Inner Winds of Eta Carinae |
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| A Cometary "Aurora" at Paranal |
VLT Auxiliary Telescope |
Asymmetric Ashes (artist's impression) |
The APEX Telescope |
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| New Brown Dwarf in the Solar Neighbourhood (Artist's Impression) |
Paranal Observing Platform with AT1 and AT2 |
East of Sinus Iridum |
Mare Humorum |
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| Warehouses at Paranal |
View inside a VLT Unit Telescope |
Panoramic view inside the dome |
Super-thin Mirror Under Test at ESO |
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| The globular cluster NGC 6388 observed by the European Southern Observatory |
Star trails over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope |
Two Planet-hunters Snapped at La Silla |
Winner of the Tweet Your Way to the VLT! anniversary competition |
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| The ESO 1.52-metre telescope |
Getting the VLT Ready for Even Sharper Images |
Cosmic dust clouds in Messier 78 |
Artist’s impression of the expected dark matter distribution around the Milky Way |