 |
 |
 |
 |
| First visual proof of a star destroyed by pair of explosions | ESO News | Look into the stunning RCW 38 star cluster | The fate of stars like the Sun | Clash of stars solves stellar mystery | ESO News |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| ESOcast 232 Light: Stars and Skulls | ESOcast 227 Light: Stunning Space Butterfly Captured by ESO Telescope | ESOcast 195 Light: A Cosmic Bat in Flight | ESOcast 180 Light: The Pirate of the Southern Skies (4K UHD) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| ESOcast 171 Light: Colourful Celestial Landscape (4K UHD) | ESOcast 162 Light: A Crowded Neighbourhood (4K UHD) | ESOcast 154 Light: ALMA Reveals Inner Web of Stellar Nursery (4K UHD) | ESOcast 129 Light: The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula (4K UHD) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| ESOcast 90 Light: Orion’s Cloudy Secrets (4K UHD) | ESOcast 14: Orion in a New Light | Lupus 3 cloud | 3D animation of M17 (Europe to the Stars clip) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| 3D animation of the Cone Nebula (Europe to the Stars clip) | 3D Animation of the Carina Nebula | Messier 78 (3D animation) | 3D data visualisation of the Pillars of Creation |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Zooming into VISTA’s infrared view of the Orion Nebula | Zooming in on the Cone Nebula | Zooming in on a rich region of star formation | 3D animation of the Orion nebula |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| 3D animation of the Orion nebula | Zooming in on Messier 78 | A close look at the star formation region Messier 17 | Zooming in on the star formation region Messier 17 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| eso1425a-fulldome-pan | Eta Carinae over ALMA | The region of the Eagle Nebula seen with the VST | Highlights from huge VST nebula image |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Zooming into the Cat's Paw Nebula | The Sharpless 2-54 region seen with ESO's VST | Infrared/visible crossfade of the Orion Nebula | IC 2944 Fulldome Video |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| A Christmas Tree and a Cone in fulldome | Zoom-in onto Gum 19 | Panning across the Carina Nebula around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22 | Close-up zoom on the star-forming region NGC 346 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Zooming in on the Carina Nebula around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22 | Zoom in on the star-forming region NGC 346 | The Horsehead Nebula | Zooming in on ALMA's view of the Orion Nebula |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Fly through the Sh2-46 nebula | Panning across ALMA's view of the Orion Nebula | The Omega Nebula region seen with the VST | Zooming in on a new image of the Lagoon Nebula from the VST |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Panning across a new image of the Lagoon Nebula from the VST | Setting the Dark on Fire (zoom) | Zooming in on the Lupus 3 dark cloud and associated hot young stars | A close-up view of the planetary nebula Fleming 1 seen with ESO’s Very Large Telescope |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Zooming in on the planetary nebula Fleming 1 | Panning across the dark nebula Barnard 59 | Zooming in on the dark nebula Barnard 59 | An infrared/visible light comparison of views of the Helix Nebula |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The 1.5-billion-pixel Running Chicken Nebula | Zooming in on the Prawn Nebula | Panning across the VISTA infrared view of the Orion Nebula | Zooming in on the NGC 6164/6165 nebula surrounding the HD 148937 stellar pair |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Zooming in on the planetary nebula ESO 378-1 | Zooming into VISTA’s infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula | Animation of a double-detonation supernova | Panning across the Gum 3 nebula |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Flying through the remnants of a dead star | Zooming in on the Skull Nebula | A close-up look at the Prawn Nebula | Paranal time-lapse |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The Anvil of Creation | The Anvil of Creation | Panning across the planetary nebula ESO 378-1 | Panning across the VISTA infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Zooming-in into RCW 38 in infrared light | Carina Nebula (fulldome) | Panning across the Cosmic Seagull | Zooming into the Cosmic Seagull |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Infrared/visible crossfade of the Cat’s Paw Nebula | Zoom in onto NGC 1788 | Panning across the IC 1284 nebula | 30 Doradus in optical to radio wavelengths |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Panning across NGC 2467 | Panning across a deep infrared image of the Orion Nebula | Setting the Dark on Fire (pan) | Zooming in on a new VISTA image of the Orion A molecular cloud |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The Dumbbell Nebula | 3D view of the NGC 6164/6165 nebula surrounding the HD 148937 stellar pair | Zooming in on the planetary nebula NGC 2899 | Slider comparison of visible and infrared views of the Orion A molecular cloud |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Visible/infrared comparison of views of the Orion A molecular cloud | Zooming in on the star-forming region Messier 17 | Zooming in on the cometary globule CG4 | Zooming in on a stellar nursery in Corona Australis |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Virtual reality flight through the Orion Nebula | Zooming in on VISTA’s view of the Flame Nebula | Infrared-visual crossfade, Flame Nebula (Annotated) | Infrared-visual crossfade, Flame Nebula |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Panning across VISTA’s view of the Flame Nebula | 3D view of the Carina Nebula | A flythrough-loop through an image of the North America Nebula | Fly over a spooky cosmic bat |
Our use of Cookies
We use cookies that are essential for accessing our websites and using our services. We also use cookies to analyse, measure and improve our websites’ performance, to enable content sharing via social media and to display media content hosted on third-party platforms.
ESO Cookies Policy
The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities for astronomy.
This Cookies Policy is intended to provide clarity by outlining the cookies used on the ESO public websites, their functions, the options you have for controlling them, and the ways you can contact us for additional details.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device by websites you visit. They serve various purposes, such as remembering login credentials and preferences and enhance your browsing experience.
Categories of cookies we use
Essential cookies (always active): These cookies are strictly necessary for the proper functioning of our website. Without these cookies, the website cannot operate correctly, and certain services, such as logging in or accessing secure areas, may not be available; because they are essential for the website’s operation, they cannot be disabled.
Functional Cookies: These cookies enhance your browsing experience by enabling additional features and personalization, such as remembering your preferences and settings. While not strictly necessary for the website to function, they improve usability and convenience; these cookies are only placed if you provide your consent.
Analytics cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors interact with our website, such as which pages are visited most often and how users navigate the site. This data helps us improve website performance, optimize content, and enhance the user experience; these cookies are only placed if you provide your consent. We use the following analytics cookies.
Matomo Cookies:
This website uses Matomo (formerly Piwik), an open source software which enables the statistical analysis of website visits. Matomo uses cookies (text files) which are saved on your computer and which allow us to analyze how you use our website. The website user information generated by the cookies will only be saved on the servers of our IT Department. We use this information to analyze www.eso.org visits and to prepare reports on website activities. These data will not be disclosed to third parties.
On behalf of ESO, Matomo will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Matomo cookies settings:
Additional Third-party cookies on ESO websites: some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube.
Such third-party services are outside of ESO control and may, at any time, change their terms of service, use of cookies, etc.
YouTube: Some videos on the ESO website are embedded from ESO’s official YouTube channel. We have enabled YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode, meaning that no cookies are set unless the user actively clicks on the video to play it. Additionally, in this mode, YouTube does not store any personally identifiable cookie data for embedded video playbacks. For more details, please refer to YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
Cookies can also be classified based on the following elements.
Regarding the domain, there are:
- First-party cookies, set by the website you are currently visiting. They are stored by the same domain that you are browsing and are used to enhance your experience on that site;
- Third-party cookies, set by a domain other than the one you are currently visiting.
As for their duration, cookies can be:
- Browser-session cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser;
- Stored cookies, which stay on the user's device for a predetermined period of time.
How to manage cookies
Cookie settings: You can modify your cookie choices for the ESO webpages at any time by clicking on the link Cookie settings at the bottom of any page.
In your browser: If you wish to delete cookies or instruct your browser to delete or block cookies by default, please visit the help pages of your browser:
Please be aware that if you delete or decline cookies, certain functionalities of our website may be not be available and your browsing experience may be affected.
You can set most browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in, shop check out).
Updates to the ESO Cookies Policy
The ESO Cookies Policy may be subject to future updates, which will be made available on this page.
Additional information
For any queries related to cookies, please contact: pdprATesoDOTorg.
As ESO public webpages are managed by our Department of Communication, your questions will be dealt with the support of the said Department.