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| VLT VISTA control room (part 7) | VLT VISTA (part 2) | The future ALMA array on Chajnantor (artist’s rendering) — 2 | VLT VISTA (part 4) |
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| Video News Release 4: VLT UT1 Soon Ready to Receive the Astronomers | VLT VISTA (part 3) | VISTA control room (part 6) | VLT VISTA control room (part 10) |
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| VISTA control room (part 5) | VLT VISTA control room (part 9) | VLT VISTA control room (part 3) | VLT VISTA control room (part 8) |
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| VISTA (part 5) | VISTA (part 1) | Una antena ALMA llega hasta el Llano de Chajnantor por primera vez | Paranal's visitor Comet C/2024 G3 |
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| The ELT's dome and windscreen in action | Acercándose al agujero negro del centro de nuestra galaxia | Recreación artística en movimiento de las órbitas y resonancias de TOI-178 (¡enciende el sonido!) | The all seeing tower II |
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| Acercándonos a la región de formación estelar AFGL 5142 | Zoom sobre la región central de la Vía Láctea | VLT VISIR | VLT VISIR |
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| Solar panels at La Silla | Solar panels at La Silla | The interior of ExTrA | El EHT, un conjunto a escala planetaria |
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| Panorámica sobre la evanescente nebulosa planetaria ESO 577-24 | Una estrella gigante roja de cerca | Cambios de brillo en R Aquarii | Simulación de material orbitando cerca de un agujero negro |
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| Acercándonos a NGC 3981 | Ocultando el Sol | AARTFAAC | Buceando en una profunda imagen infrarroja de la nebulosa de Orión |
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| Comparación del espejo del VLT con el espejo segmentado del ELT | El problema de expandir un espejo a mayor tamaño | Sistema de soporte de óptica activa para los espejos primarios del VLT | El espejo segmentado del ELT |
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| Artist’s impression of a Jupiter twin orbiting HIP 11915 | NGC 6334: fundido entre las imágenes infrarrojas de VISTA y las submilimétricas de ArTeMiS | Panorámica sobre una visión de amplio campo en la extraña galaxia Centaurus A | Zooming in on Fomalhaut and its dusty disc |
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| The visit of the Prince and Princess of Asturias to ESO's Paranal Observatory | Animación de la impresión artística de la súper-Tierra HD 85512 b | The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 7 | The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 6 |
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| The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 5 | The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 4 | The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 3 | The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 2 |
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| The assembling of an ALMA antenna at the Operations Site Facility (OSF) 1 | Acercamiento a NGC 4666 | La Vía Láctea sobre Cerro Armazones | La Silla compilation 2009 |
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| VLT VISTA (part 8) | VLT platform (part 2) | VLT platform (part 3) | VLT VISTA (part 9) |
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| VLT VISTA (part 12) time-lapse | Video News Release 3: Into the Invisible with ISAAC | VLT platform (part 1) | VLT platform (part 5) |
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| VLT VISTA (part 7) | Paranal Residencia (part 1) | VLT VISTA (part 13) | VLT platform (part 4) time-lapse |
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| VLT VISTA (part 6) | VLT platform (part 6) time-lapse | VLT VISTA (part 14) | VLT VISTA (part 11) time-lapse |
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| VLT VISTA (part 10) | Declaración del Presidente Steinmeier a los medios en Paranal | Un viaje a NGC 1850 | Cómo detectar un agujero negro con MUSE |
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| Acercándonos al corazón de M87 para disfrutar de una nueva vista de su agujero negro | Acercándonos a AB Aurigae | The all seeing tower | Dancing beneath the stars — VLT |
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| Comparación de la nebulosa Tarántula en luz visible e infrarroja | Comparación de imágenes de la Gran Nube de Magallanes en luz visible e infrarroja | Material bruto de archivo sobre la colaboración EHT (Event Horizon Telescope): Ciencia y Tecnología | Starry sky over the Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope (time-lapse) |
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| The beginning of ESO (fulldome) | La estrella de Barnard en el vecindario solar | Panorámica sobre NGC 3981 | The Earths axis and the seasons (fulldome) |
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| Circling an oil rig (fulldome) | Un agujero negro cerca del horizonte de sucesos (cúpula completa) | Acercándonos al cúmulo globular de estrellas NGC 3201 | Panorámica de la galaxia NGC 1316 |
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| Animación de Eta Carinae y sus alrededores | Astrophotographer at ALMA | Astrophotographer at ALMA | "From Earth to the Universe" — Moon 360 Panoramas |
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| "From Earth to the Universe" — Crab Nebula | "From Earth to the Universe" — Dumbbell Nebula | "From Earth to the Universe" — Sun 360 Panorama | "From Earth to the Universe" — Solar Flare |
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