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| Distant view of Paranal | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 2) | Paranal aerial view1998g | Paranal aerial view1995a |
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| La Silla history 1992 (part 2) | Paranal aerial view 1997e | Paranal aerial view1995b | Paranal aerial view 1997f |
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| Paranal Aerial View1998f | Tests of FORS — the first major VLT instrument | Animation showing the expected and measured trajectory of `Oumuamua | MUSE charts distances in the Hubble Ultra Dee Field |
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| Neutronstjärnornas sista dans | Animation: Neutronstjärnor smälter samman med kilonova som avslutning | A slice through the Universe | Excerpt from ESOcast 82 |
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| En närmare titt på delar av den mörka nebulosan Kolsäcken | Inzoomning på det stjärnbildande molnet RCW 34 | Hubble Deep Field South enligt MUSE | Illustration av kvasernas kusligt organiserade rotationsaxlar |
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| En närmare titt på den klotformiga stjärnhopen Messier 54 | Instrumentet SPHERE installeras på VLT | Zooma in mot Toby jug-nebulosan | TAROT upptäcker en stark supernova i NGC 1365 (utdrag) |
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| Inzoomning mot systemet Oph-IRS 48 | En närbild på stjärnbarnkammaren IC 2944 och Thackerays globuler | Zooma in mot stjärnbildningsområdet NGC 6559 | Zomma in i VISTA:s infraröda bild av NGC 6357 |
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| En närmare titt på klothopen 47 Tucanae | Ockultationen av dvärgplaneten Makemake den 23 april 2011 | Distant star-forming galaxies in the early Universe (pan) | The occultation of the dwarf planet Eris in November 2010 |
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| Path of the shadow of the dwarf planet Eris during the occultation of November 2010 | ESO Movie 11: The ESO Very Large Telescope - Astronomy for the Future | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 5) | Life at La Silla (part 4) |
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| VLT site decision (part 3) | VLT site decision (part 4) | La Silla history 1992 (11) | Panorama of the Chilean night sky |
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| La Silla history 1992 (part 15) | La Silla history 1992 (part 13) | OCam images | Sharpening up Jupiter |
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| Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty | Two Auxiliary Telescopes at Paranal | Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 | Zooming in on the orange dwarf star PDS 70 and its newly discovered planet |
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| Gravitationsvågor hittills från olika källor | Bilder och spektra på kilonovan (timelapse-film) | Närbild av området omkring stjärnhopen Messier 18 | Clouds rush by |
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| Apollo and the Sun | A bucolic wonderland | Närbildspanorering över det stjärnbildande molnet RCW 34 | Mars som den kan ha sett ut för fyra miljarder år sedan |
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| A distant ALMA antenna | Simulering av den X-formade bulan i Vintergatan | A Day in the Life of ESO (long) | A Day in the Life of ESO (short) |
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| Zooming in on a stellar nursery in Monoceros | ESO Movie 10: EWSC – European Week for Scientific Culture | FORS (part 9) | ISAAC and VLT (part 2) |
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| FORS (part 6) | FORS (part 4) | FORS (part 10) | FORS (part 11) |
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| IF spectroscopy | FORS (part 8) | ISAAC and VLT (part 1) | FORS (part 5) |
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| FORS (part 7) | Pan over the artist’s impression of CoRoT-7b | Zoom in the artist’s impression of CoRoT-7b | Captain Snoop's Space Trip |
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| Satelix trailer | Konstnärlig animation av det svarta hålet i NGC 1850 | Timelapse-film från VISTA: kilonovans färger förändras | A Mayan temple |
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| The sky seen from within a wood | Zooma in på den röda hyperjätten VY Canis Majoris | Mars: Planeten som förlorade en ocean av vatten | Skivan runt en ung stjärna som den skulle kunna se ut |
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| Vintergatans omgivande mörk materia | Infrared/visible crossfade of the Monoceros R2 star-forming region (Unannotated) | ESO Movie 09: Future Astronomers of Europe | VLT site decision (part 2) |
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| VIP visit at Paranal (part 8) | Discussion between astronomers | ISAAC and VLT (part 4) | ISAAC and VLT (part 3) |
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| VLT site decision (part 1) | SINFONI instrument | ISAAC and VLT (part 5) | The Expanding Shell Around V445 Puppis |
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| Artist's impression of vampire star | Flare from the magnetar-candidate | Meteor in MASCOT images | Ark Noir — Tunnel Visions |
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