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| Video News Release: A Black Hole’s Dinner is Fast Approaching – B-roll | Zooming in on the VISTA view of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) | IR/visible crossfade of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) | Infrared/visible crossfade of the Monoceros R2 star-forming region |
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| Animation of the planetary system around Sun-like star HD 10180 (artist’s impression) | Panning across the VISTA view of the Tarantula Nebula | La Silla general view (part 10) | The globular cluster M12 |
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| The Helix Nebula | The protostar HH34 in Orion | ESO 3.6-metre telescope — 2 | La Silla general view (part 8) |
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| La Silla general view (part 9) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope — 4 | The Omega Nebula M17 | Animation d'une planète de masse inférieure à la Terre en orbite autour de l'étoile de Barnard |
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| Artist's impression of the Big Bang | La tache sombre sur Neptune observée avec MUSE au VLT | Zoom sur la nébuleuse Sh2-284 | Zoom sur la nébuleuse de la Tarentule dans les longueurs d’onde radio |
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| Animation d’artiste de l’étoile évanescente | Dusk at Paranal | Un halo de gaz observé en 3D par MUSE entoure une fusion de galaxies capturée par ALMA | Lasers in the sky |
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| Lasers in the sky | Lasers in the sky | Lasers in the sky | Lighting up the sky |
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| Lighting up the sky | Lasers in the sky | Moonlit VLT dome | Lighting up the sky |
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| Lasers to the stars | Lasers to the stars | Auxiliary Telescopes | Lighting up the sky |
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| Moonset over Cerro Paranal | Getting dark after moonset | Lasers and the Milky Way | Lasers in the sky |
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| Lasers in the sky | Moonlit VLT dome | Moon and lasers in the sky | Green flash registered from Cerro Paranal |
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| Lasers in the night | Lasers in the night | Lasers in the night | Lasers in the night |
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| Moon, lasers and the Milky Way | Auxiliary Telescopes on Cerro Paranal | Moon and lasers in the sky | Zoom sur le cœur de la Voie Lactée |
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| Vue d’artiste de l’éclipse solaire totale du 2 juillet 2019 | The path of totality for the total solar eclipse of 2231 | Zoom sur la jeune étoile HD 163296 | Planet Parade: the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 |
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| Zoom au cœur d’une image de MUSE du champ ultra-profond de Hubble | Zoom sur la supergéante rouge Antarès | Star-roof takes its position | Star-roof takes its position |
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| The bright of the Moon | Moonrise | The Milky Way crosses a Greek summer sky | Panorama sur la galaxie elliptique géante Centaurus A (NGC 5128) |
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| Fondu vidéo permettant de comparer les clichés de la Nébuleuse du trèfle acquis dans les domaines visible et infrarouge | Zoom sur la nébuleuse sombre LDN 483 | Vue d'artiste de l'astéroïde Itokawa (25143) | Vue d'artiste de l'astéroïde Itokawa (25143) |
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| Zoom sur l'observation de la Nébuleuse de la Patte de Chat, NGC 6334, effectuée par ArTeMIS | Voyage panoramique sur la tête de la nébuleuse de la Mouette | La poussière proche de la Ceinture d’Orion passée au crible (zoom) | Zooming in on Atoms-for-Peace: a galactic collision in action |
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| Animation of the planetary system around Sun-like star HD 10180 (artist’s impression) | Zooming in on the VISTA view of the Tarantula Nebula | The MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 2) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope — 7 |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 3) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope — 6 | The stellar cluster NGC 2467 | The MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 1) |
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| ESO Movie 27: Astronomy from Planet Earth (English) | ESO Movie 27b: Astronomy from Planet Earth (German) | ESO Movie 27c: Astronomy from Planet Earth (French) | ESO Movie 27d: Astronomy from Planet Earth (Italian) |
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| The emission nebula N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | The MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 5) | The MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 4) | TheMPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 6) |
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| The emission nebula NGC 3603 | Colliding Galaxies: NGC 5917 and MCG-01-39-003 | The barred spiral galaxy NGC 613 | Zooming in on the Jewel Box |
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| Zooming onto Messier 4 | Zoom in on the embedded star cluster RCW 38 | Le proto-superamas Hypérion | Flight from the Earth to the Milky Way Black Hole |
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| Séquence vidéo accélérée du chasseur d’exoplanètes ExTrA à La Silla | Artist’s impression video of the black hole binary system in NGC 3201 | Survol à travers une image de MUSE du champ ultra-profond de Hubble | Zoom sur Ross 128 |
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