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| Paranal Aerial View1998f | Tests of FORS — the first major VLT instrument | Animation showing the expected and measured trajectory of `Oumuamua | MUSE charts distances in the Hubble Ultra Dee Field |
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| Last dance of neutron star pair | Neutronstjerner støder sammen og animationen ender med en kilonova eksplosion | A slice through the Universe | Excerpt from ESOcast 82 |
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| Et tæt kig på tågen Kulsækken | Zoom ind på gasskyen RCW 34 | MUSE ser på Hubble Deep Field South - lag på lag | Video af kvasarernes uforklarede rotationsretninger, som tegneren forestiller sig dem |
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| Den kugleformede stjernehob Messier 54 tæt på | SPHERE-instrumentet under installationen på VLT | Zoom ind på Toby Jug-tågen | TAROT discovers a bright supernova in NGC 1365 (annotated) |
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| Zoom ind på systemet Oph-IRS 48 | Et tættere blik på stjernefødeklinikken IC 2944 og Thackeray-globulerne | Zoom ind på det stjernedannede område NGC 6559 | Zoom ind på et infrarødt VISTA-billede af NGC 6357 |
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| Et detaljeret kik på den kugleformede stjernehob 47 Tucanae | Okkultationen af dværgplaneten Makemake den 23. april 2011 | Distant star-forming galaxies in the early Universe (pan) | The occultation of the dwarf planet Eris in November 2010 |
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| Path of the shadow of the dwarf planet Eris during the occultation of November 2010 | ESO Movie 11: The ESO Very Large Telescope - Astronomy for the Future | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 5) | Life at La Silla (part 4) |
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| VLT site decision (part 3) | VLT site decision (part 4) | La Silla history 1992 (11) | La Silla history 1992 (part 15) |
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| La Silla history 1992 (part 13) | Panorama of the Chilean night sky | OCam images | Sharpening up Jupiter |
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| Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty | Two Auxiliary Telescopes at Paranal | Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 | Zoom ind på den orange dværgstjerne PDS 70 og dens nyopdagede exoplanet |
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| Waveforms and chirp | Time-lapse af kilonovabilleder og spektrer | Næroptagelse af området omkring stjernehoben Messier 18 | Clouds rush by |
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| Apollo and the Sun | A bucolic wonderland | Panorering i gasskyen RCW 34 | Artist’s impression of Mars four billion years ago |
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| En ALMAantenne flytter 7 kilometer væk | Simulering af den X-formede bule i Mælkevejen | A Day in the Life of ESO (long) | A Day in the Life of ESO (short) |
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| Zooming in on a stellar nursery in Monoceros | ESO Movie 10: EWSC – European Week for Scientific Culture | FORS (part 9) | ISAAC and VLT (part 2) |
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| FORS (part 6) | FORS (part 4) | FORS (part 11) | FORS (part 10) |
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| IF spectroscopy | FORS (part 8) | ISAAC and VLT (part 1) | FORS (part 7) |
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| FORS (part 5) | Pan over the artist’s impression of CoRoT-7b | Zoom in the artist’s impression of CoRoT-7b | Captain Snoop's Space Trip |
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| Satelix trailer | Animeret præsentation af det sorte hul i NGC 1850, som forvrider ledsagestjernen | Farveændringerne som time-lapse fra VISTA | A Mayan temple |
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| The sky seen from within a wood | Zoom ind på den røde hyperkæmpe VY Canis Majoris | Mars: the planet that lost an ocean's worth of water | En kunstners opfattelse af en skive med planetdannelse |
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| En kunstners forestilling af fordelingen af mørkt stof i Mælkevejen | Infrared/visible crossfade of the Monoceros R2 star-forming region (Unannotated) | ESO Movie 09: Future Astronomers of Europe | VLT site decision (part 2) |
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| VIP visit at Paranal (part 8) | ISAAC and VLT (part 4) | Discussion between astronomers | ISAAC and VLT (part 3) |
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| VLT site decision (part 1) | SINFONI instrument | ISAAC and VLT (part 5) | The Expanding Shell Around V445 Puppis |
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| Artist's impression of vampire star | Flare from the magnetar-candidate | Meteor in MASCOT images | Ark Noir — Tunnel Visions |
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| Interview med Thomas Collett om det nye forskningsresultat | Artist's 3d impression of the disc around the young star HL Tauri | Zoom ind på den røde kæmpestjerne R Sculptoris | Snit gennem en 3D-model af materialet omkring den røde kæmpestjerne R Sculptoris |
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| IR/visible crossfade of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) — Unannotated | ESO Movie 08: The VLT Tale | VIP visit at Paranal (part 9) | VIP Visit at Paranal (part 10) |
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