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| VLT dome | Unit Telescope time-lapse D | VLT Control Room 4 | VLT Auxiliary Telescope |
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| VLT Control Room 1 | Auxiliary Telescope time-lapse A | Auxiliary Telescope time-lapse B | Zooming in on the Large Magellanic Cloud |
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| ALMA Antennas at Chajnantor (time-lapse) | Meeting at the Operations Support Facility | Meeting at the Operations Support Facility | Operations Support Facility |
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| ALMA control room at the OSF | ALMA control room at the OSF | Zoom-in onto Gum 19 | Flying around the ELT construction site |
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| How did the polarisation of light change after the DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos? | Vue d'artiste de Bételgeuse et de son voile de poussière | Vue d'artiste d'une comète | Animation représentant une étoile marquée par une tache magnétique géante |
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| Les taches sur le Soleil vs les taches sur les étoiles de la branche horizontale extrême (animation) | Zoom sur Eta Carinae | The Moon's Phases as Seen from Space | Fulldome of the Moon's Phases as Seen from Space |
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| Moonset | A cloudy night | Video News Release 38: The ALMA Inauguration | VNR: L’ESO célèbre son 50e anniversaire |
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| Actualités Vidéo 37 : l’ESO célèbre son 50e anniversaire (B-roll) | eso1153a | Video News Release 36: A Black Hole’s Dinner is Fast Approaching (eso1151b) | Video News Release 35: ALMA Opens Its Eyes (eso1137b) |
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| Video News Release 34: Fifty New Exoplanets (eso1134e) | Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plateau | Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor plateau | Panning across the Carina Nebula around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22 |
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| VLT NACO 2010 — E | VLT NACO 2010 — D | VLT NACO 2010 — C | VLT NACO 2010 — B |
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| VLT NACO 2010 — A | VLT astronomers time-lapse B | VLT astronomers time-lapse A | VLT astronomers 2010 |
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| VLT astronomers 2010 | VLT astronomers 2010 | VLT astronomers 2010 | ALMA control room at the OSF |
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| ALMA antennas at Chajnantor | Close-up zoom on the star-forming region NGC 346 | Sunset at the VLT | A Unit Telescope at sunset |
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| Shadows in the Atacama Desert | Condor at Paranal | Condor at Paranal | An Auxiliary Telescope on the move |
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| An Auxiliary Telescope opens up | An Auxiliary Telescope on the move | An Auxiliary Telescope on the move | Close up on an Auxiliary Telescope |
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| Close up on an Auxiliary Telescope | Close up on an Auxiliary Telescope | Zooming on an Auxiliary Telescope | An Auxiliary Telescope opens up |
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| A day in the Atacama Desert | VLT VISTA control room (part 1) | Vue d'artiste du quasar record J0529-4351 | Vue d’artiste de l’étoile de Barnard et de sa super-Terre |
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| Test de la relativité générale au centre de la galaxie - compilation | Panning across a new image of NGC 1055 | From Dream to Discovery - Education Modules | Raise of the faint stars |
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| Shooting at the stars | Constantly working | Stars rise over La Silla | Night at Moon Valley |
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| La Silla cloudscape | La Silla Fish-eye view | Night view of ESO 3.6-metre telescope | Starry reflections |
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| VLT in Action | La Silla moonscape | Fly-over of the planned road to Armazones | Video News Release 33: First Images from the VLT Survey Telescope – VST and 268 megapixel OmegaCAM start work (eso1119b) |
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| Video News Release 32: First planet of extragalactic origin (eso1045b) | Zooming in on the Carina Nebula around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22 | ALMA antennas at Chajnantor (time-lapse) | ALMA control room at the OSF |
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| ALMA control room at the OSF | ALMA control room at the OSF | ALMA control room at the OSF | ALMA antennas at Chajnantor |
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| Zooming in on Abell 315 | Zoom in on the star-forming region NGC 346 | A fish-eye view on Paranal | A Fish-eye View Inside UT1 (time-lapse) |
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| Zoom in on the star GJ1214 | The Horsehead Nebula | Bond at Paranal | Sunset over Chajnantor |
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