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| Supernova explosion 3 | Supernova explosion 1 | Supernova explosion 2 | Zoom sur le système binaire exotique AR Scorpii |
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| Zoom sur le disque protoplanétaire de la Soucoupe Volante | Journey to the Centre of the Milky Way Flattened Version of the Short Fulldome Planetarium Show | Zoom sur le jeune système d'étoiles doubles HK Tauri | The vampire double star SS Leporis (unannotated) |
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| Zooming in on the first planet of extragalactic origin | First planet of extragalactic origin (artist's impression) | The orbit of the first planet of extragalactic origin (artist's impression) | Radial velocity |
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| Les régions centrales de la Voie Lactées observées par VISTA et HAWK-I | Zoom sur la naissance d'une gigantesque étoile | Animation du piège à poussière | Zoom-in on the double star HD 87643 |
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| Zoom in on Betelgeuse | Zoom-in onto T Leporis | Artist's impression of the whirlpool around a gigantic black hole | Zoom sur Apep |
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| Stars orbiting the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way | Les orbites de trois étoiles situées à très grande proximité du centre de la Voie Lactée | Zoom sur la formation d'étoiles dans les régions australes de la Voie Lactée | Vue d'artiste de Luhman 16B reconstituée à partir d'observations du VLT |
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| Le cycle de vie d'une étoile semblable au Soleil | Artist's impression of the evolution of a hot high-mass binary star (annotated version) | First planet of extragalactic origin (artist's impression) | Zoom in on the star CoRoT-7 |
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| The first image of an exoplanet confirmed | The UVES Spectrograph Sees the Sun | VISTA découvre un élément caché de la Voie Lactée | Zoom sur le plus vieux jumeau solaire HIP 102152 |
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| Computer simulation of dust trap formation | Zooming in on the flames of Betelgeuse | Habitable zone | Zoom sur V960 Mon |
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| Vue d'artiste de CR7 : la galaxie la plus brillante de l'Univers jeune | Voyage dans le système HD 100546 | The principle of Light Echoes | Simulation des orbites stellaires autour du trou noir situé occupant le centre de la Voie Lactée |
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| Vue d'artiste du système d'étoiles doubles chaudes, massives et au contact l'une de l'autre | Zoom sur l'étrange système binaire V471 Tauri | Vue d'artiste de deux naines blanches sur le point de fusionner et de donner lieu à une supernova | Zoom sur la naine brune Luhman 16B située à proximité de la Terre |
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| Vue d'artiste d'une binaire à éclipses | Zoom-in on Gliese 581 e | Artist’s impression of Gliese 581 d | The radial velocity method |
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| Light echoes in RS Pup | Hydrogen to helium fusion in a star | Zoom out from Vienna to the Universe | Zoom sur la géante rouge L2 Puppis |
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| Summary of ESO Press Conference on 16 October 2017 | L’étoile S2 s’approche du trou noir central de la Voie Lactée | The polarisation of light emitted by a neutron star | Zooming in on Beta Pictoris |
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| Vue d'artiste de l'étoile hypergéante jaune HR 5171 | Cartographie de la surface de Luhman 16B créée à partir des observations du VLT | Vue d'artiste de la Voie Lactée | Vue d’artiste de la fameuse exoplanète Tau Bootis b |
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| Zooming in on the unusual double star SS Leporis | VISTA finds hidden feature of Milky Way | Zoom sur la formation d'étoiles dans les régions australes de la Voie Lactée | L’amas d’étoiles NGC 6520 et le nuage sombre Barnard 86 vus dans le visible et dans l’infrarouge |
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| La naine brune ISO-Oph 102 | Artist's impression of the evolution of a hot high-mass binary star | Zoom sur l’étoile Tau Bootis | ESO Press Conference on 16 October 2017 |
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| De la Terre à l’étoile U Antliae | Tomographie d’une bulle cosmique | Zoom sur l'étoile hypergéante jaune HR 5171 | Survol des étoiles les plus proches du Système Solaire |
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| TAROT discovers a bright supernova in NGC 1365 | Zooming in on NGC 3603 | Zoom sur la kilonova dans NGC 4993 | The vampire double star SS Leporis |
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| Zoom sur une étoile à neutrons dans le Petit Nuage de Magellan | Animation de spectres d’une kilonova dans NGC 4993 | Neutron star merger seen in gravity and matter | Vue d'artiste d'un disque transitoire autour d'une étoile jeune |
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| Vue d'artiste d'un disque transitoire autour d'une étoile jeune | Mysterious ripples moving through the disc of AU Microscopii | Artist's impression of the Gliese 667C system | Vue d'artiste du système Gliese 667C |
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| Modélisation de l’évolution de la matière autour de la vieille étoile R Sculptoris au cours de 2000 ans | Panning across NGC 3603 | Fusion d’étoiles à neutrons donnant lieu à une explosion en kilonova | Last dance of neutron star pair |
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| TAROT discovers a bright supernova in NGC 1365 (annotated) | Simulation du piège à poussière | Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty | Séquence temporelle d’images et de spectres de la kilonova |
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| Waveforms and chirp | Simulation of the X-shaped bulge of the Milky Way | Zoom in the artist’s impression of CoRoT-7b | Pan over the artist’s impression of CoRoT-7b |
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| Times Lapse du changement de couleur par VISTA | Zoom sur l'hypergéante rouge VY Canis Majoris | Artist's impression of the disc around a young star | The Expanding Shell Around V445 Puppis |
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