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| Approaching Antares (artist's impression) | Night sky at La Silla | Zooming in on VFTS 352 | First light of new laser on Adaptive Optics Facility at Paranal |
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| Zooming in on 51 Pegasi | Close-up view of the star cluster NGC 6193 and nebula NGC 6188 | Artist's impression of ring system around asteroid Chariklo | Zooming in on the Herbig-Haro object HH 46/47 |
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| Artist's impression of the orbits of the planets in the Gliese 667C system | Engineers at work at the OSF (part 8) | Engineers at work at the OSF (part 3) | Engineers at work at the OSF (part 5) |
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| Engineers at work at the OSF (part 1) | Engineers at work at the OSF (part 4) | Engineers at work at the OSF (part 2) | Zooming in on HE 0109-3518 |
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| Zooming in on NGC 6357 | Zooming in on the radio galaxy Centaurus A, as seen by ALMA | Time-lapse Video Showing the Assembly of a Full-Size Mock-up of the E-ELT Mirror | Zooming in on HD 85521 b |
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| European ALMA antenna brings total on Chajnantor to 16 | Zooming in on the brilliant star VFTS 682 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | Zooming in on the disturbed galactic duo NGC 3169 and NGC 3166 | Zooming in on the spiral galaxy NGC 3621 |
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| Panning across the spiral galaxy NGC 3621 | Trailer for the Nanoantofagasta competition | ESO Movie 26: Science on Stage – Science for Humanity | Infrared/visible cross-fade of the VISTA Tarantula Nebula image |
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| La Silla Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope (part 1) | La Silla Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope (part 2) | The Orion Nebula | The star R Coronae Austrinae |
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| The Serpens Nebula | Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope (part 5) | The superb triple system NGC 6769-71 | Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope |
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| The giant Interacting galaxies NGC 6872/IC 4970 | The emission nebula NGC 6188 | The MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 7) | Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope (part 4) |
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| The Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7424 | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 2) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 1) | Paranal aerial view1998e |
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| The supernova SN2005df in NGC 1559 | Animation of a pair of jousting galaxies | Stellar bubbles captured by ALMA | ESO News | Material promocional para Comité Mixto ESO-Chile 2023 regional |
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| Material promocional para Comité Mixto ESO-Chile 2023 | NACO and ERIS comparison of the inner ring of NGC 1097 | SLATEC — live concert trailer | Artistic animation of a distant quasar surrounded by a gas halo |
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| Desert hotel | About 3D-CANCER-SPEC | ESO showreel | Supernova explosion 3 |
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| Supernova explosion 1 | Supernova explosion 2 | MUSE reveals glowing haloes around distant galaxies | Time-lapse of building Paranal |
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| Time-lapse of building Paranal | ALMA Residencia construction time-lapse | ALMA Residencia construction time-lapse | Infrared/visible-light cross-fade views of Messier 78 |
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| Panning across VISTA’s view of Messier 78 | Zooming into VISTA’s view of Messier 78 | ALMA probes the Hubble Ultra Deep Field | Zooming on the star cluster Terzan 5 |
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| Zooming in on the star cluster Messier 18 | "From Earth to the Universe" — Titan | "From Earth to the Universe" — Mayan Calendar | "From Earth to the Universe" — Milky Way |
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| "From Earth to the Universe" — Milky Way zoom out | "From Earth to the Universe" — Galileo | "From Earth to the Universe" — Ring Galaxy | "From Earth to the Universe" — NGC 1132 |
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| Zooming in on the exotic binary star AR Scorpii | Zooming on the protoplanetary disc around V883 Orionis | Zooming in on the glowing gas cloud LHA 120-N55 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | A prism is used to spread light into its constituent colours |
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| Clear skies above the National Observatory of Athens | Close-up of the reflection nebula IC 2631 | Zooming in on the young star in the reflection nebula IC 2631 | Zooming in on the Flying Saucer protoplanetary disc |
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| Zooming in on the dwarf galaxy IC 1613 | A close look at the dwarf galaxy IC 1613 | Journey to the Centre of the Milky Way Flattened Version of the Short Fulldome Planetarium Show | Zooming in on the Trifid Nebula, and two Cepheid variables far beyond |
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| Artist’s impression of a protocluster forming in the early Universe | Zooming in on the young double star HK Tauri | Three-dimensional view of ALMA observations of the outflows from NGC 253 | Landscape around the ALMA observatory (part 3) |
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| Landscape around the ALMA observatory (part 1) | Landscape around the ALMA observatory (part 2) | The ALMA correlator at the AOS Technical Building (part 2) | The ALMA correlator at the AOS Technical Building (part 5) |
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| The ALMA correlator at the AOS Technical Building (part 4) | The ALMA correlator at the AOS Technical Building (part 1) | The ALMA correlator at the AOS Technical Building (part 6) | The ALMA correlator at the AOS Technical Building (part 3) |
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