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| VLT VISTA (part 4) | VLT VISTA (part 2) | Video News Release 4: VLT UT1 Soon Ready to Receive the Astronomers | VLT VISTA (part 3) |
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| VLT VISTA control room (part 10) | VISTA control room (part 6) | VISTA control room (part 5) | VLT VISTA control room (part 9) |
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| VLT VISTA control room (part 3) | VISTA (part 1) | VISTA (part 5) | VLT VISTA control room (part 8) |
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| An ALMA antenna arrives on the plateau of Chajnantor for the first time | Paranal's visitor Comet C/2024 G3 | The ELT's dome and windscreen in action | Zooming into the black hole at the centre of our galaxy |
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| Artist’s animation of the TOI-178 orbits and resonances (sound on!) | The all seeing tower II | Zooming into star-forming region AFGL 5142 | Zoom of the Milky Way’s central region |
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| VLT VISIR | VLT VISIR | Solar panels at La Silla | Solar panels at La Silla |
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| The interior of ExTrA | The EHT, a Planet-Scale Array | Panning across the evanescent planetary nebula ESO 577-24 | Changing brightness of R Aquarii |
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| Close-up of a red giant star | Simulation of Material Orbiting close to a Black Hole | Zooming into NGC 3981 | Hiding the Sun |
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| AARTFAAC | Zooming into a deep infrared image of the Orion Nebula | Comparison of a single VLT mirror with the segmented ELT mirror | The problem of expanding a mirror to greater size |
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| Active optics support system for the VLT primary mirros | The segmented mirror of the ELT | Artist’s impression of a Jupiter twin orbiting HIP 11915 | Cross-fading between infrared VISTA and submillimetre ArTeMiS views of NGC 6334 |
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| Panning over a deep view at the strange galaxy Centaurus A | Zooming in on Fomalhaut and its dusty disc | The visit of the Prince and Princess of Asturias to ESO's Paranal Observatory | Animation of artist’s impression of the super-Earth planet HD 85512 b |
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| The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 7 | The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 5 | The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 6 | The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 4 |
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| The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 3 | The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 2 | The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 1 | Zooming in on NGC 4666 |
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| Milky Way Above Cerro Armazones | La Silla compilation 2009 | VLT VISTA (part 8) | VLT platform (part 2) |
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| VLT platform (part 3) | VLT VISTA (part 9) | Video News Release 3: Into the Invisible with ISAAC | VLT VISTA (part 12) time-lapse |
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| VLT platform (part 5) | VLT VISTA (part 7) | VLT platform (part 1) | Paranal Residencia (part 1) |
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| VLT VISTA (part 13) | VLT platform (part 6) time-lapse | VLT VISTA (part 6) | VLT platform (part 4) time-lapse |
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| VLT VISTA (part 14) | VLT VISTA (part 11) time-lapse | VLT VISTA (part 10) | Declaración del Presidente Steinmeier a los medios en Paranal |
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| A journey to NGC 1850 | How to find a black hole with MUSE | Zooming-in to the heart of M87 to see a new view of its black hole | Zooming in to AB Aurigae |
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| The all seeing tower | Dancing beneath the stars — VLT | Comparison of the Large Magellanic Cloud in infrared and visible light | Comparison of the Tarantula nebula in infrared and visible light |
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| Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, B-roll: Scientists and Technology | Starry sky over the Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope (time-lapse) | The beginning of ESO (fulldome) | Barnard’s Star in the Solar neighborhood |
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| Panning across NGC 3981 | The Earths axis and the seasons (fulldome) | Circling an oil rig (fulldome) | Close-up of a black hole near the event horizon (fulldome) |
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| Zooming in on the globular star cluster NGC 3201 | Panning across the galaxy NGC 1316 | Animation of Eta Carinae and its surrounding | Astrophotographer at ALMA |
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| Astrophotographer at ALMA | "From Earth to the Universe" — Moon 360 Panoramas | "From Earth to the Universe" — Crab Nebula | "From Earth to the Universe" — Dumbbell Nebula |
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| "From Earth to the Universe" — Sun 360 Panorama | "From Earth to the Universe" — Solar Flare | Artist’s impression of cold intergalactic rain | Artist’s impression of the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 from the surface of one of its planets |
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