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| Inzoomen op de Kosmische Wimper (Cosmic Eyelash) | Clouds over ESO Headquarters | Close-up view of the glowing gas cloud LHA 120-N55 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | The most powerful laser guide star system in the world sees first light at the Paranal Observatory |
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| Het WLM-stelsel aan de rand van de Lokale Groep | Starry skies over a ruined town | ESOcast 78 excerpt: Airglow Altitudes | Inzoomen op de rode reuzenster L2 Puppis |
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| Close-up van de heldere sterrenhoop Messier 47 | Inzoomen op de Garnaalnevel | De jonge open sterrenhoop NGC 2547 onder de loep | Spiraalstelsel NGC 1637 onder de loep |
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| Simulation of the merging events in Abell 2744 | ESO Movie 19: Physics on Stage | NTT remote control room (part 1) | De EHT, een array van wereldformaat |
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| Interview with Reinhard Genzel (in German) | Interview with Reinhard Genzel (in English) | Summary of ESO Press Conference on 16 October 2017 | Fulldome artist’s view of bright spots on Ceres imaged by the Dawn spacecraft |
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| De bewegingen van de heldere vlekken op Ceres | Sunset | Volume visualisation under the dome (2009) | Zware sterrenstelsels ontdekt in het vroege heelal |
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| ESOcast78 excerpt: Chemiluminescence | ESOcast78 excerpt: Creating Ozone | Artist’s impression van Mars, vier miljard jaar geleden | Inzoomen op de bolvormige sterrenhoop M54 |
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| Inzoomen op de sterrenhoop NGC 3572 | Gaswolk die verscheurd wordt door het zwarte gat in het Melkwegcentrum | Zooming in on the Omega Nebula | Path of the shadow of the dwarf planet Eris during the occultation of November 2010 |
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| Electric Supercar on Pan-American Marathon Races to ESO’s Very Large Telescope | 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) |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 1) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 3) | NTT Remote Control Room (part 3) | Adaptive optics |
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| NTT remote control room (part 2) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 4) | The Orbits of the Central Stars | Inzoomen op het web van het superzware zwarte gat |
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| Artist’s impression van het zwarte gat in het hart van M87 | De locatie van de zuidelijke Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) | De ster S2 komt heel dicht bij het zwarte gat in het centrum van de Melkweg | Artist’s impression van een sterk magnetische neutronenster |
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| 3D-animatie van quasarhalo | De protoplanetaire schijf rond V883 Orionis (artist’s impression) | ESO Trailer (no text) | Artforms of nature: a new way of seeing (2008) |
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| Full Dome geometry series: Part I (2007) | MUSE-beeld van het Hubble Deep Field South | De kleurrijke sterrenhoop NGC 3590 | Inzoomen op Bèta Pictoris b |
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| Artist’s impression van de gele hyperreuzenster HR 5171 | Oppervlaktekaart van Luhman 16B, gebaseerd op VLT-waarnemingen (met tekst) | Artist’s impression van de Melkweg | Een APEX-opname van een deel van de Orionnevel onder de loep |
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| Zwenken langs een deel van de Zeemeeuwnevel | Artist’s impression van de exoplaneet Tau Boötis b | Zooming in on the unusual double star SS Leporis | Prof. Adriaan Blaauw (1914–2010) speaks about astronomy from the southern hemisphere |
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| Prof. Adriaan Blaauw (1914–2010) speaks about the aims of ESO | 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) |
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| ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 13) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 15) | La Silla history 1992 (part 6) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 7) |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in 1992 (part 6) | La Silla history 1992 (part 7) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 14) | La Silla history 1992 (part 4) |
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| ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 1) | 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) |
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| Animatie van de scherpste detecties die ooit vanaf het aardoppervlak zijn gedaan | Animatie van de baan van ster S2 rond het zwarte gat in het centrum van de Melkweg | Animatie van de uitgassing en rotatie van `Oumuamua | Animatie van de uitgassing van `Oumuamua |
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| Artist’s impression van de heldere vlekken op Ceres, die door de ruimtesonde Dawn zijn ontdekt | The Sun crosses the sky | The sky above a lake | Zwenken langs het stervormingsgebied Gum 15 |
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| Artist’s impression van het ringenstelsel rond planetoïde Chariklo | Close-up van de Garnaalnevel | Zwenken langs het stervormingsgebied NGC 6559 | Het tuinboonstelsel J2240 |
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| VLT Auxiliary Telescopes time-lapse | Zwenken langs VISTA’s diepe opname van het COSMOS-veld | Zooming in on Pandora’s Cluster | ESO Movie 16: A Giant's Mirror Best Support |
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| La Silla history 1992 (part 12) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 3) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 10) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 8) |
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