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| Paranal time-lapse 2012f | Time-lapse: glory phenomenon at Paranal | Paranal time-lapse 2012c | Paranal time-lapse 2012b |
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| Paranal time-lapse 2012a | APEX time-lapse | The Chajnantor Plateau (time-lapse) | ALMA and artificial satellites (time-lapse) |
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| ALMA’s Cosmic Ballet (time-lapse) | The Full Moon and the Magellanic Clouds over ALMA (time-lapse) | The ALMA Antennas and the Magellanic Clouds | ALMA Observations at the Chajnantor Plateau (time-lapse) |
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| ALMA operations time-lapse | Schöne Festtage wünscht die ESO (2023) | ELT Time Capsule Ceremony | Vorschau auf den Metallrahmen von M2 | ELT-Updates |
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| Zeitkapsel im Extremely Large Telescope der ESO vergraben | World's largest telescope dome takes shape | ELT updates | The steel backbone of ESO’s ELT | Lernen Sie MICADO kennen, eine Superkamera für das ELT! |
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| Lernen Sie METIS kennen, ein Multifunktionsinstrument für das ELT | The scales of the stars | Zeitraffer der totalen Sonnenfinsternis 2019 am Observatorium La Silla | Illustris simulation of the Universe's evolution in 8k fulldome |
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| Die kurze Ganzkuppel-Planetariumsshow Journey to the Centre of the Milky Way | Globular cluster (fulldome artist's impression) | Adaptive Optik und SPHERE | Simulation of gas cloud approaching the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way (fulldome) |
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| The Chajnantor plateau (time-lapse) | Exoplanet in the glow of its parent star | 2019 total solar eclipse real-time video, La Silla Observatory | ESOcast Light 145: Erste ELT-Hauptspiegelsegmente erfolgreich gegossen |
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| ESOcast Light 108: Grundsteinlegungszeremonie für das ELT der ESO (4K UHD) | Lupus 3 cloud | Earth to Alpha Centauri | 4k video of the Sun's surface activity |
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| Zoom auf die Position von HL Tauri | SPHERE 2 | A 3D animation of the most distant quasar | Sunset at the VLT |
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| Sunset at the VLT | Rotating domes at the VLT | Inside UT1 (time-lapse) | The VLT opens up |
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| The Southern Milky Way band (time-lapse) | Zoomen in das Herz von Messier 87 | 3D animation of M17 (Europe to the Stars clip) | 3D animation of the Cone Nebula (Europe to the Stars clip) |
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| 3D-Animation des Carinanebels | Inside UT1 (time-lapse) | Paranal time-lapse | VLT activity time-lapse |
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| Zodiacal light time-lapse | Simulation eines supermassereichen schwarzen Lochs (Fulldome) | Laser –nicht in den Strahl schauen! | Artist’s impression of Mars four billion years ago (fulldome) |
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| ALMA time-lapse 2011 (part 2) | ALMA time-lapse 2011 (part 1) | Messier 78 (3D animation) | ESO’s La Silla Observatory video compilation |
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| ESOs VLT 2022 Rohvideo-Zusammenstellung | Flying over Cerro Armazones | MUSE, die kosmische Zeitmaschine | Animation eines Schnitts durch das SPHERE-Instrument am VLT |
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| SPHERE 3 | Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plain | Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor pain | Sunset at the VLT |
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| The Paranal Residencia — 1 | Desert view around Paranal — 2 | Desert view around Paranal — 1 | The Paranal Residencia — 2 |
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| Desert view around Paranal — 5 | Desert view around Paranal — 4 | Desert view around Paranal — 3 | Das bisher detaillierteste Video von Blasen auf der Oberfläche eines Sterns |
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| World’s largest mirror support installed | ELT Updates | Von der ESO Supernova zum Rand des Universums | MUSE – Die kosmische Zeitmaschine (German) | Fronteras (Borders) - Fulldome Show |
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| Zoom auf Nova Centauri 2013 | Dreidimensionale Visualisierung der Säulen der Schöpfung | SPHERE 4 | From dusk till dawn - A Paranal perspective |
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| Zooming into VISTA’s infrared view of the Orion Nebula | Time-lapse sequence with VLT and NTT images | Hineinzoomen in den Konusnebel | Stan Dart — Mare Stellaris flat trailer |
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| Eröffnungsveranstaltung der ESO Supernova | Flug über die ESO Supernova | Flying into the ELT (fulldome) | Paranal Observatory Compilation 2017 |
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| Zoom auf eine reichhaltige Sternentstehungsregion | Die Teleskope der ESO auf La Silla im Jahr 2016 | SPHERE 5 | ESO-Ultra HD-Zeitraffer-Zusammenstellung |
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| ALMA UHD-Video-Zusammenstellung | Very Large Telescope UHD-Video-Zusammenstellung | Fotografen bei der ESO-UHD-Expedition 2014 | La Silla-Observatorium UHD-Video-Zusammenstellung |
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