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| The HARPS instrument — 1 | La Silla general view — 4 | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) — 3 | Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope — 3 |
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| Zoom-in on Gliese 581 e | Artist’s impression of Gliese 581 d | Artist's impression of Gliese 581 e | The radial velocity method |
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| Zooming into NGC 253 | The Very Large Telescope trailer 2008 | Light echoes in RS Pup | Flashes of light from disappearing matter |
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| Space Opera planetarium show trailer | Hydrogen to helium fusion in a star | Animation de la toile du trou noir supermassif | Vue panoramique sur N180 |
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| Zoom out from Vienna to the Universe | Curiosity rover landing fulldome | Zoom sur le Cil Cosmique | Clouds over ESO Headquarters |
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| Vue rapprochée du nuage de gaz rougeoyant LHA 120-N55 dans le Grand Nuage de Magellan | The most powerful laser guide star system in the world sees first light at the Paranal Observatory | La galaxie WLM à l'extrémité du Groupe Local | Starry skies over a ruined town |
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| ESOcast 78 excerpt: Airglow Altitudes | Zoom sur la géante rouge L2 Puppis | Close up view of the bright star cluster Messier 47 | Zoom sur la nébuleuse de la Crevette |
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| Vue détaillée des jeunes étoiles qui constituent l'amas ouvert NGC 2547 | Regard rapproché sur la galaxie spirale NGC 1637 | Simulation of the merging events in Abell 2744 | ESO Movie 19: Physics on Stage |
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| NTT remote control room (part 1) | EHT, un réseau à l'échelle de la planète | Interview (en anglais) de Reinhard Genzel | Interview (en allemand) de Reinhard Genzel |
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| Summary of ESO Press Conference on 16 October 2017 | Fulldome artist’s view of bright spots on Ceres imaged by the Dawn spacecraft | Vue d'artiste des taches brillantes sur Cérès photographiées par la sonde spatiale Dawn | Sunset |
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| Volume visualisation under the dome (2009) | Des galaxies massives découvertes dans l'Univers jeune | ESOcast78 excerpt: Creating Ozone | ESOcast78 excerpt: Chemiluminescence |
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| Vue d'artiste de la planète Mars telle qu'elle était il y a quatre milliards d'années | Zoom sur l'amas globulaire Messier 54 | Zoom sur l'amas d'étoiles NGC 3572 | Nuage de gaz désintégré par le trou noir situé au centre de la Voie Lactée |
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| Zooming in on the Omega Nebula | Path of the shadow of the dwarf planet Eris during the occultation of November 2010 | Electric Supercar on Pan-American Marathon Races to ESO’s Very Large Telescope | ESO Movie 18: Astronomy to the Power of Four |
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| La Silla MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 5) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 2) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 3) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 1) |
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| NTT Remote Control Room (part 3) | Adaptive optics | NTT remote control room (part 2) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 4) |
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| The Orbits of the Central Stars | Zoom sur la toile du trou noir supermassif | Vue d'artiste du trou noir au cœur du M87 | The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Southern Site |
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| L’étoile S2 s’approche du trou noir central de la Voie Lactée | The polarisation of light emitted by a neutron star | 3D animation of quasar halo | The protoplanetary disc around V883 Orionis (artist's impression) |
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| ESO Trailer (no text) | Artforms of nature: a new way of seeing (2008) | Full Dome geometry series: Part I (2007) | La vision de MUSE du champ profond sud de Hubble |
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| Le très coloré amas d'étoiles NGC 3590 | Zooming in on Beta Pictoris | Vue d'artiste de l'étoile hypergéante jaune HR 5171 | Cartographie de la surface de Luhman 16B créée à partir des observations du VLT |
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| Vue d'artiste de la Voie Lactée | Un regard rapproché sur une vue d'APEX d'une partie de la nébuleuse d'Orion | Panorama d’une partie de la nébuleuse de la Mouette | Vue d’artiste de la fameuse exoplanète Tau Bootis b |
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| Zooming in on the unusual double star SS Leporis | Prof. Adriaan Blaauw (1914–2010) speaks about ESO's collaboration with CERN | Prof. Adriaan Blaauw (1914–2010) speaks about the aims of ESO | Prof. Adriaan Blaauw (1914–2010) speaks about astronomy from the southern hemisphere |
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| ESO Video 17: Imaging Cosmic Dawn (ALMA) | La Silla history 1992 (part 8) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 13) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 15) |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 6) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 7) | La Silla history 1992 (part 6) | La Silla history 1992 (part 7) |
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| ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 14) | La Silla history 1992 (part 4) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 1) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 8) |
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| ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (Part 16) | La Silla history 1992 (part 1) | Animation des détections à la plus haute résolution jamais réalisées depuis la surface de la Terre | Animation de l’orbite de l’étoile S2 autour du trou noir situé au centre de la galaxie |
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