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| Unit Telescope time-lapse D | VLT dome | VLT Control Room 4 | VLT Auxiliary Telescope |
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| VLT Control Room 1 | Auxiliary Telescope time-lapse B | Auxiliary Telescope time-lapse A | Acercándose hacia la Gran Nube de Magallanes |
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| ALMA Antennas at Chajnantor (time-lapse) | Meeting at the Operations Support Facility | Meeting at the Operations Support Facility | Operations Support Facility |
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| ALMA control room at the OSF | ALMA control room at the OSF | Acercamiento a Gum 19 | Flying around the ELT construction site |
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| ¿Cómo cambió la polarización de la luz después de que la nave espacial DART colisionara con el asteroide Dimorphos? | Representación artística de Betelgeuse y su velo polvoriento | Representación artística de un cometa | Animación de una estrella plagada de manchas magnéticas gigantes |
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| Animación que compara manchas solares con machas de estrellas de rama horizontal extrema. | Acercándonos a Eta Carinae | The Moon's Phases as Seen from Space | Fulldome of the Moon's Phases as Seen from Space |
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| Moonset | A cloudy night | Video News Release 38: The ALMA Inauguration | Vídeonoticia 37: ESO celebra su 50 aniversario (material inédito/B-roll) |
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| Vídeonoticia: ESO celebra su 50 aniversario | El cometa navideño Lovejoy capturado desde Paranal | Video de Prensa 36: La cena de un agujero negro se aproxima rápidamente (eso1151b) | Video de Prensa 35: ALMA abre los ojos |
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| Video de Prensa 34: Cincuenta nuevos exoplanetas (eso1134e) | Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plateau | Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plateau | Recorrido a través de la nebulosa Carina alrededor de la estrella Wolf–Rayet WR 22 |
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| VLT NACO 2010 — E | VLT NACO 2010 — D | VLT NACO 2010 — C | VLT NACO 2010 — B |
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| VLT NACO 2010 — A | VLT astronomers time-lapse B | VLT astronomers time-lapse A | VLT astronomers 2010 |
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| VLT astronomers 2010 | VLT astronomers 2010 | VLT astronomers 2010 | ALMA control room at the OSF |
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| ALMA antennas at Chajnantor | Gran acercamiento a la zona de formación estelar NGC 346 | Sunset at the VLT | A Unit Telescope at sunset |
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| Shadows in the Atacama Desert | Condor at Paranal | Condor at Paranal | An Auxiliary Telescope on the move |
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| An Auxiliary Telescope opens up | An Auxiliary Telescope on the move | An Auxiliary Telescope on the move | Close up on an Auxiliary Telescope |
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| Close up on an Auxiliary Telescope | Close up on an Auxiliary Telescope | Zooming on an Auxiliary Telescope | An Auxiliary Telescope opens up |
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| A day in the Atacama Desert | VLT VISTA control room (part 1) | Reproducción artística del cuásar J0529-4351 que ha batido récords | Ilustración animada de la estrella de Barnard y su supertierra |
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| Poniendo a prueba la relatividad general en el Centro Galáctico – recopilación | Panorámica sobre la nueva imagen de NGC 1055 | From Dream to Discovery - Education Modules | Raise of the faint stars |
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| Shooting at the stars | Constantly working | Stars rise over La Silla | Night at Moon Valley |
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| La Silla cloudscape | La Silla Fish-eye view | Night view of ESO 3.6-metre telescope | Starry reflections |
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| VLT in Action | La Silla moonscape | Fly-over of the planned road to Armazones | Video de Prensa: Primeras imágenes del Telescopio de Rastreo del VLT – el VST y su cámara OmegaCAM de 268 megapixel comenzaron a operar |
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| Video de Prensa: Primer planeta de origen extragaláctico | Acercándose a la nebulosa Carina alrededor de la estrella Wolf–Rayet WR 22 | ALMA antennas at Chajnantor (time-lapse) | ALMA control room at the OSF |
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| ALMA control room at the OSF | ALMA control room at the OSF | ALMA control room at the OSF | ALMA antennas at Chajnantor |
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| Acercamiento en Abell 315 | Acercamiento a la zona de formación estelar NGC 346 | A fish-eye view on Paranal | A Fish-eye View Inside UT1 (time-lapse) |
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| Acercamiento a la estrella GJ 1214 | The Horsehead Nebula | Bond at Paranal | Sunset over Chajnantor |
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