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| Spiral Galaxy | The fate of colliding galaxies | Zooming in on Messier 77 | Artist’s animation of the black hole at the centre of SDSS1335+0728 awakening in real time |
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| Panning across a new image of Messier 77 | Zooming in on The Eyes | Zooming into NGC 3981 | Panning over a deep view at the strange galaxy Centaurus A |
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| Zooming in on NGC 4666 | Comparison of the Large Magellanic Cloud in infrared and visible light | Panning across NGC 3981 | Panning across the galaxy NGC 1316 |
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| Panning across NGC 5018 and its surroundings | Zooming in on the Triangulum Galaxy | A close-up look at the Triangulum Galaxy | The Hot and Energetic Universe Virtual Reality |
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| Zooming in on the young dusty galaxy A2744_YD4 | Zooming in on the edge-on galaxy NGC 1055 | Zooming in to the Kinman Dwarf galaxy | The X-Ray Universe Virtual Reality |
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| Zooming on ALMA’s view of the Antennae Galaxies | Panning across the Large Magellanic Cloud | Visualisation of a galaxy undergoing ram pressure stripping | Comparing APEX and ALMA views of star-forming galaxies in the early Universe |
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| Panning across the ALMA and Hubble views of the Antennae Galaxies (crossfade) | Centaurus A (2) | Centaurus A (1) | Pan across ESO 325-G004 |
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| Zooming in on 9io9 | Zooming in on the interacting galaxy system NGC 5291 | Zooming in on the heart of the Milky Way | Panning across the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) and its strange globular clusters |
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| Zooming in on Atoms-for-Peace: a galactic collision in action | Colliding Galaxies: NGC 5917 and MCG-01-39-003 | The barred spiral galaxy NGC 613 | Zooming in on the radio galaxy Centaurus A, as seen by ALMA |
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| Zooming in on the disturbed galactic duo NGC 3169 and NGC 3166 | Panning across the spiral galaxy NGC 3621 | Zooming in on the spiral galaxy NGC 3621 | The giant Interacting galaxies NGC 6872/IC 4970 |
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| The superb triple system NGC 6769-71 | The Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7424 | The supernova SN2005df in NGC 1559 | Animation of a pair of jousting galaxies |
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| A close look at the dwarf galaxy IC 1613 | Zooming in on the dwarf galaxy IC 1613 | Three-dimensional view of ALMA observations of the outflows from NGC 253 | Panning across the ALMA and Hubble views of the Antennae Galaxies |
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| Pan over Atoms-for-Peace: a galactic collision in action | Zooming in on the HAWK-I infrared image of the spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 | The Large Magellanic Cloud | The barred spiral galaxy ESO 269-57 |
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| Southern Pinwheel Galaxy | The spiral galaxy Messier 66 | 6dF Galaxy Survey: Beyond the Crux | Zooming in on the unusual active galaxy Markarian 1018 |
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| A close-up look at the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy | Zooming in on the spiral galaxy NGC 1637 | Zooming in on teenage galaxies in the distant Universe | The spiral galaxy NGC 2613 |
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| The starburst galaxy NGC 1313 | Close-up view of the surroundings of the interacting galaxy NGC 5291 | Panning over the radio galaxy Centaurus A, as seen by ALMA | The Antenne, NGC4038 and NGC 4039 |
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| The galaxy NGC 4565 | The spiral galaxy NGC 3190 | Galaxies in collision | Three-dimensional view of ALMA observations of the outflows from NGC 253 |
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| Infrared/visible light comparison of VISTA’s gigapixel view of the centre of the Milky Way | Annotated pan along part of the Galactic Plane as seen by the ATLASGAL survey | A voyage to the heart of the Milky Way | Arp 261 zoom in |
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| Pan over Arp 261 | MUSE shows ESO 137-001 in three dimensions | Zooming in on the spiral galaxy NGC 1187 | Zooming in on Barnard’s Galaxy |
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| Voyage in the Milky Way | Zoom in on NGC 4945 | SPT0418-47: lensed view to reconstructed view | Zooming in on the dwarf galaxy WLM |
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| Zooming in on ESO 137-001 | Merger between two galaxies (artist’s impression) | Zooming in on an eclipsing binary in the Large Magellanic Cloud | Zooming into NGC 253 |
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| Zooming in on the Cosmic Eyelash | The WLM galaxy on the edge of the Local Group | A close look at the spiral galaxy NGC 1637 | Summary of ESO Press Conference on 16 October 2017 |
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| Massive galaxies discovered in the early Universe | The green bean galaxy J2240 | Gamma-ray burst buried in dust (artist’s impression) | Zooming in on the galaxies NGC 1316 and 1317 |
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| Panning across a new VLT image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1187 | TAROT discovers a bright supernova in NGC 1365 | Visible/infrared cross-fade of images of the spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 | Panning across the galaxies NGC 1316 and 1317 |
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| MUSE — close up of the H-alpha line in the strange galaxy NGC 4650A | Localization of source | MUSE — running through the 3D data of NGC 4650A | MUSE views the unusual galaxy NGC 4650A |
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