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| Moving ALMA antennas | Moving ALMA antennas | Moving ALMA antennas | Moving ALMA antennas |
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| Moving ALMA antennas | Moving ALMA antennas | Moving ALMA antennas | Moving ALMA antennas |
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| Moving ALMA antennas | ESO Movie 24: ALMA – The Atacama Large Millimeter Array | The spiral galaxy NGC 2613 | The cluster of galaxies CL 2244 – 02 |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 7) | Abell 370 | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 6) | The starburst galaxy NGC 1313 |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 8) | The Fornax cluster of galaxies | Zoom-in on the double star HD 87643 | Zoom in on Betelgeuse |
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| Pan over the Helix Nebula | Zoom-in onto T Leporis | Carina Nebula Zoom-in | Comet Tempel 1 |
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| Inside looking out | Zoom sur la région HII LHA 120-N 180B | Artist's impression of the whirlpool around a gigantic black hole | Zoom sur Apep |
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| Stars orbiting the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way | Objets visibles dans le ciel au cours de l’éclipse totale de Soleil au-dessus de La Silla (anglais) | Les orbites de trois étoiles situées à très grande proximité du centre de la Voie Lactée | NGC 6369 AO on/off crossfade |
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| Zooming in on the Orion Nebula | Panning across the Orion Nebula | The TRAPPIST telescope in its dome at La Silla | View from the inside of TRAPPIST |
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| Vue rapprochée du ciel qui entoure la région de formation d'étoiles RCW 106 | Vue rapprochée des environs de la galaxie NGC 5291 | L'amas d'étoiles NGC 2367 dans la constellation du Grand Chien | Chilean President Michelle Bachelet holds video conference with Paranal Observatory from Expo Milano 2015 |
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| New High-speed Fibre Optic Data Link to ALMA | New High-speed Fibre Optic Data Link to ALMA | Zoom sur la formation d'étoiles dans les régions australes de la Voie Lactée | Vue d'artiste de Luhman 16B reconstituée à partir d'observations du VLT |
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| Le cycle de vie d'une étoile semblable au Soleil | Nouvelle image panoramique de NGC 2014 et NGC 2020 acquise par le VLT | Zoom sur une vue d'APEX d'une partie de la nébuleuse d'Orion | Zoom sur la nébuleuse planétaire IC 1295 |
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| Effet de lentille gravitationnelle sur les galaxies distantes de formation d'étoiles (schéma) | ALMA Operational Support Facility (part 2) | ALMA Operational Support Facility (part 3) | ALMA Operational Support Facility (part 6) |
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| ALMA Operational Support Facility (part 7) | ALMA Operational Support Facility (part 4) | Artist's impression of the evolution of a hot high-mass binary star (annotated version) | Séquence panoramique de la nébuleuse Guerre et Paix |
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| Panoramique sur la radiogalaxie Centaurus A, vue par ALMA | E-ELT mirror segments under test | First planet of extragalactic origin (artist's impression) | Telescope seeing effects |
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| ESO Movie 23: Physics on Stage 3 – Physics and Life | Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope (part 2) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 11) | The Antenne, NGC4038 and NGC 4039 |
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| Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope (part 1) | Assembly hall (part 1) | The galaxy NGC 4565 | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 9) |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 10) | The spiral galaxy NGC 3190 | Galaxy structure seven billion light-years away | Galaxy structure seven billion light-years away |
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| Zoom in on the star CoRoT-7 | Zoom-in RCW 86 | Galaxies in collision | Helix Nebula Zoom |
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| Helix Nebula pan and zoom | The first image of an exoplanet confirmed | First Auxiliary Telescope for the VLT | ADONIS observes low-mass eclipsing system in Orion |
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| Paranal Observatory (December 2000) | The UVES Spectrograph Sees the Sun | Getting ISAAC ready for the VLT | VLT Unit Telescope 1 during integration |
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| Flight above the VLT Paranal Observatory | Les segments du miroir principal de l'ELT expédiés au Chili | Panorama de la nébuleuse Sh2-284 | Panning across the Cosmic Bat |
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| Artist's impression of the Veil Nebula (fulldome) | Perdu dans l’Espace (vue d’artiste) | Orbit in exile | Animation montrant le chemin du faisceau de lumière à travers GRAVITY |
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| Solar eclipse (fulldome artist's impression) | ESO Signs Largest Ever Ground-based Astronomy Contract for E-ELT Dome and Telescope Structure | Excerpt from ESOcast 81 | VISTA découvre un élément caché de la Voie Lactée |
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| Zoom sur le plus vieux jumeau solaire HIP 102152 | Vue 3D des observations d'ALMA des jets de gaz issus de NGC 253 | Nuage de gaz tombant sur le trou noir du centre de la Voie Lactée | Computer simulation of dust trap formation |
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