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| "From Earth to the Universe" — Solar Flare | Animation kalten intergalaktischen Regens | Animation des sehr kühlen Zwergsterns TRAPPIST-1 aus der Nähe eines seiner Planeten | Animation des sehr kühlen Zwergsterns TRAPPIST-1 von der Oberfläche einer seiner Planeten |
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| Halo in the Greek sky | Sunset over Pyrgos | Ivy-covered trees in the Greek autumn | Sunset over Greek pine forest |
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| Blue sky over the Milos bridge | The bridge of Milos | Night sky over the Milos bridge | The Rocky Kipoi valley |
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| Blue sky over Kipoi rocky hills | Blue sky over Agios Christoforos wood | Clouds dancing over the Athens Observatory | Monsters of the Cosmos (fulldome) |
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| CANARY laser star guide fulldome time-lapse | STS-135 fulldome launch | STS-135 fulldome landing | STS-135 fulldome montage |
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| Rock star and astrophysicist Brian May visits Paranal | The problem of making rigid telescope mirrors | Zoom auf gelinste Abbildung kollidierender Galaxien im frühen Universum | Landscape around Paranal (Part 5) time-lapse |
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| Paranal Residencia (part 7) | Paranal Residencia (part 3) | Landscape around Paranal (part 2) | VLT time-lapse movie (part 1) |
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| Landscape around Paranal (part 4) | Video News Release 2: The high-dispersion UVES spectrograph | Paranal Residencia (part 5) | Paranal Residencia (part 8) |
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| ISAAC (part 1) | Paranal Residencia (part 6) | VLT time-lapse movie (part 2) | Landscape around Paranal (part 1) |
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| Paranal residencia (part 2) | Landscape around Paranal (Part 3) | VLT time-lapse movie (part 3) | Paranal Residencia (part 4) |
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| Aerial view of ESO Headquarters | Darstellung der Bahn von zwei Exoplaneten um TYC 9889-760-1 | Künstlerische Animation des WDJ0914+1914-Systems | La Silla Observatory |
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| Europe to the Stars long trailer in German | Europe to the Stars long trailer in English | Schwenk über NGC 5018 und Umgebung | Zeitraffer-Videosequenz der ExTrA-Anlage zur Planetensuche auf La Silla |
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| Zooming in on the kilonova in NGC 4993 (without annotation) | Rotierendes supermassereiches Schwarzes Loch zerreißt Stern (künstlerische Darstellung) | New observations with ALMA reveal water snow line around young star | The 1.2-metre telescope at Kryoneri Observatory |
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| The sky coverage of the VST and VISTA surveys | The Moon's phases in 4k (Artist's Impression) | Fulldome preview of the Moon's phases (Artist's Impression) | Animation of the principle of the occultation |
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| ALMA glueing time-lapse | Night over Cerro Armazones | VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 2) | NACO (part 1) |
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| SINFONI spectrograph (Part 1) | VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 5) | UVES spectrograph (part 2) | VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 6) |
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| VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 3) | SINFONI spectrograph (part 2) | UVES spectrograph (part 1) | NACO (part 2) |
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| Video News Release 1: Recent work at the first 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT1) | ISAAC (part 2) | VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 4) | ALMA surroundings — 6 |
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| VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 1) | Annäherung an das schwarze Loch und den Jet von Messier 87 | Animation des Netzwerks der EHT-Radioteleskope | Vergrößerung der inneren Region des AB Aurigae-Systems |
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| Another artist’s impression of S2’s precession effect | Adventures of Rosetta and Philae Trailer DE | Adventures of Rosetta and Philae Trailer EN | Event Horizon Telescope-Kooperation, zusätzliches Filmmaterial: Interviews (Teil 2) |
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| Fulldome forest | Zoomen auf ESO 577-24 | Vampire star cataclysm (fulldome) | The Secrets of Gravity — In the Footsteps of Albert Einstein (flat trailer in German) |
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| Zeitraffer-Videosequenz der ExTrA-Anlage zur Planetensuche auf La Silla | Zeitraffer-Videosequenz der ExTrA-Anlage zur Planetensuche auf La Silla | Helle Halos um ferne Quasare | Veränderliche RR-Lyrae-Sterne |
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| Überblendung von Bildern des sichtbaren und infraroten Lichts im Orionnebel | Vergleich der zentralen Bereiche der Milchstraße bei unterschiedlichen Wellenlängen | Nahansicht des ATLASGAL-Bildes der Milchstraßen-Ebene | Animation des Doppelsternsystems GG Tauri-A |
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| Nahansichten der Dreiecksgalaxie | Zoom auf die Dreiecksgalaxie | Künstlerische Darstellung des Quasars 3C 279 | Zooming in on the Running Chicken Nebula |
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| European ALMA antenna brings total on Chajnantor to 16 (time-lapse) | Zooming in on the cluster and nebula NGC 371 | Fox on Cerro Paranal | Interferometry 1 |
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