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| La Silla general view — 3 | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) — 2 | La Silla general view — 4 | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) — 3 |
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| Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope — 3 | Artist's impression of Gliese 581 e | Zoom-in on Gliese 581 e | The radial velocity method |
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| Artist’s impression of Gliese 581 d | Zooming into NGC 253 | The Very Large Telescope trailer 2008 | Light echoes in RS Pup |
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| Flashes of light from disappearing matter | Space Opera planetarium show trailer | Hydrogen to helium fusion in a star | Animazione: la ragnatela del buco nero supermassiccio |
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| Panoramica di N180B | Zoom out from Vienna to the Universe | Curiosity rover landing fulldome | Zoom sulle ciglia cosmiche |
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| Clouds over ESO Headquarters | Primo piano della nube di gas rilucente LHA 120-N55 nella Grande Nube di Magellano | Prima luce all'Osservatorio del Paranal per il sistema di stelle guida laser più potente al mondo | La galassia WLM al bordo del Gruppo Locale |
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| Starry skies over a ruined town | Estratto di ESOcast 78: altitudini della luminescenza notturna | Zoom sulla gigante rossa L2 Puppis | Primo piano del luminoso ammasso stellare Messier 47 |
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| Zoom sulla Nebulosa Gambero | Uno sguardo da vicino alle giovani stelle dell'ammasso aperto NGC 2547 | Uno sguardo da vicino alla galassia a spirale NGC 1637 | Simulation of the merging events in Abell 2744 |
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| ESO Movie 19: Physics on Stage | NTT remote control room (part 1) | EHT, una rete di scala planetaria | Interview with Reinhard Genzel (in English) |
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| Interview with Reinhard Genzel (in German) | Summary of ESO Press Conference on 16 October 2017 | Fulldome artist’s view of bright spots on Ceres imaged by the Dawn spacecraft | Rappresentazione artistica delle macchie luminose di Cerere fotografate dalla sonda Dawn |
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| Sunset | Volume visualisation under the dome (2009) | Galassie massicce scoperte nell'Universo primordiale | Estratto di ESOcast78: chemiluminescenza |
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| Estratto di ESOcast78: formazione dell'ozono | Rappresentazione artistica di come poteva apparire Marte quattro miliardi di anni fa | Zoom sull'ammasso globulare Messier 54 | Zoom sull'ammasso stellare NGC 3572 |
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| Nube di gas dilaniata dal buco nero al centro della Galassia | Zooming in on the Omega Nebula | Path of the shadow of the dwarf planet Eris during the occultation of November 2010 | Electric Supercar on Pan-American Marathon Races to ESO’s Very Large Telescope |
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| ESO Movie 18: Astronomy to the Power of Four | La Silla MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 5) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 2) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 1) |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 3) | NTT Remote Control Room (part 3) | Adaptive optics | NTT remote control room (part 2) |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 4) | The Orbits of the Central Stars | Zoom sulla ragnatela del buco nero supermassiccio | Rappresentazione artistica del buco nero nel cuore di M87 |
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| The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Southern Site | The star S2 makes a close approach to the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way | La polarizzazione della luce emessa da una stella di neutroni | Animazione 3D dell'alone dei quasar |
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| Il disco protoplanetario intorno a V883 Orionis (rappresentazione artistica) | ESO Trailer (no text) | Artforms of nature: a new way of seeing (2008) | Full Dome geometry series: Part I (2007) |
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| MUSE osserva il Campo Profondo Meridionale di Hubble | Il colorato ammasso stellare NGC 3590 | Zoom su Beta Pictoris b | Rappresentazione artistica della stella ipergigante gialla HR 5171 |
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| Mappa della superficie di Luhman 16B riprodotta a partire dalla osservazioni VLT | Rappresentazione artistica della Via Lattea | Uno sguardo da vicino alla zona della Nebulosa di Orione osservata da APEX | Panoramica della Nebulosa Gabbiano |
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| Realizzazione artistica del famoso esopianeta Tau Boötis b | Zooming in on the unusual double star SS Leporis | Prof. Adriaan Blaauw (1914–2010) speaks about astronomy from the southern hemisphere | Prof. Adriaan Blaauw (1914–2010) speaks about the aims of ESO |
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| Prof. Adriaan Blaauw (1914–2010) speaks about ESO's collaboration with CERN | ESO Video 17: Imaging Cosmic Dawn (ALMA) | La Silla history 1992 (part 8) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 15) |
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| ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 13) | La Silla history 1992 (part 7) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 7) | La Silla history 1992 (part 6) |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 6) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 14) | La Silla history 1992 (part 4) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 1) |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 8) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (Part 16) | La Silla history 1992 (part 1) | Animation of the highest-resolution detections ever made from the surface of Earth |
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