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| Animazione dell'orbita della stella S2 intorno al buco nero centrale della Galassia | Animazione di `Oumuamua che degassa e ruota | Animazione del degassamento di `Oumuamua | I moti delle macchie luminose su Cerere |
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| The Sun crosses the sky | The sky above a lake | Panoramica della zona di formazione stellare Gum 15 | Rappresentazione artistica del sistema di anelli intorno all'asteroide Chariklo |
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| Un primo piano della Nebulosa Gambero ottenuto dal VST dell'ESO | Panoramica della regione di formazione stellare NGC 6559 | La galassia "fagiolino" J2240 | VLT Auxiliary Telescopes time-lapse |
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| Panoramica sul campo profondo di VISTA nel campo COSMOS | Zooming in on Pandora’s Cluster | ESO Movie 16: A Giant's Mirror Best Support | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 3) |
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| La Silla history 1992 (part 12) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 8) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 10) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 4) |
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| ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 5) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 6) | La Silla history 1992 (part 16) | La Silla history 1992 (part 14) |
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| ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 2) | La Silla history 1992 (part 9) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 7) | La Silla history 1992 (part 10) |
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| A Flared Proto-Planetary Disc | The ELT, from the air | APEX holography run | Milky Way gamma ray lobes |
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| Microwave map of the Milky Way | Far infrared map of the Milky Way | Black hole devours a star | The Eagle Nebula |
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| The Crab Nebula | Orbits of the Solar System | X-ray & optical images of a supernova remnant | Active galaxy |
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| Stars merge and go supernova | Exoplanet | Pulsar star | Paranal aerial view |
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| Where the ELT will be | ESO's desert home | The TRAPPIST–South telescope in its dome at La Silla | Un estratto dall'ESOcast 82 |
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| The sky glimpsed through the trees of a pine forest | VISTA finds hidden feature of Milky Way | Zoom sulla stella AU Microscopii | Zoom su Abell 1689 e su una galassia remota e polverosa |
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| La cupola dell'NGTS (Next-Generation Transit Survey) al Paranal | Un primo piano della nube oscura Lupus 4 | Zoom sulla nube oscura Lupus 4 | Uno sguardo da vicino alla formazione stellare nella zona meridionale dalla Via Lattea |
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| Zoom su Gum 15 | Lampi di luce gamma sepolti nella polvere (Rappresentazione artistica) | Zoom sulle galassie NGC 1316 e NGC 1317 | Video del transito di Europa sul disco di Giove visto da MUSE |
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| Panning across a VLT view of the Toby Jug Nebula | Scene della giornata di inaugurazione di ALMA | Dissolvenze incrociate in luce visibile e infrarossa dell'ammasso stellare NGC 6520 e della nube oscura Barnard 86 | Zoom sull'ammasso stellare NGC 6520 e sulla nube oscura Barnard 86 |
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| Evoluzione degli ammassi globulari | La nana bruna ISO-Oph 102 | Panoramica dell'immagine della galassia a spirale NGC 1187 ottenuta con il VLT | Rappresentazione artistica dell'evoluzione di una stella binaria calda e massiccia |
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| Zoom sulla stella Tau Boötis | Artist's impression of a sunset on the super-Earth world Gliese 667 Cc | VLT UT1 First Light Video Compilation (May 1998) | ESO Movie 15: Moments of Celebration |
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| The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 24) | ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 4) | ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 3) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 12) |
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| ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 5) | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 23) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 11) | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 26) |
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| ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 1) | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 22) | ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 6) | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 25) |
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| ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 2) | Flickering Black Hole | Chajnantor–Sequitor way | La prima luce di ESPRESSO |
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| Animazione dell'asteroide `Oumuamua | ESO Press Conference on 16 October 2017 | In volo dalla Terra fino alla stella U Antliae | Tomografia di una bolla cosmica |
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| Message for ESO from Steven Wilson | La singolare cometa rocciosa C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS) | Estratto dell'episodio 81 di ESOcast | Vista di Hubble dell'ammasso di galassie Abell 3827 |
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| Video dei dati MUSE del Campo Profondo Meridionale di Hubble | Uno sguardo da vicino all'ammasso stellare NGC 3293 | Zoom sull'ammasso stellare brillante NGC 3293 | Panoramica della regione di formazione stellare Gum 41 |
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