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| Eyes on the Skies — Equatorial mount | La giovane stella HD 142527 | Video News Release: A Black Hole’s Dinner is Fast Approaching – B-roll | IR/visible crossfade of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) |
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| Zooming in on the VISTA view of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) | Infrared/visible crossfade of the Monoceros R2 star-forming region | Animation of the planetary system around Sun-like star HD 10180 (artist’s impression) | Panning across the VISTA view of the Tarantula Nebula |
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| La Silla general view (part 10) | The globular cluster M12 | The Helix Nebula | ESO 3.6-metre telescope — 2 |
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| The protostar HH34 in Orion | ESO 3.6-metre telescope — 4 | La Silla general view (part 8) | The Omega Nebula M17 |
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| La Silla general view (part 9) | Animation of a sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard’s star | Artist's impression of the Big Bang | Dark spot on Neptune observed with MUSE at the VLT |
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| Zoom sulla nebulosa Sh2-284 | Zooming-in on the Tarantula Nebula with radio wavelengths | Rappresentazione artistica della stella scomparsa | Dusk at Paranal |
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| Veduta 3D dell'alone di gas osservato da MUSE intorno alla fusione tra galassie come viste da ALMA | Lasers in the sky | Lasers in the sky | Lasers in the sky |
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| Lasers in the sky | Lighting up the sky | Lighting up the sky | Lasers in the sky |
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| Moonlit VLT dome | Lighting up the sky | Lasers to the stars | Lasers to the stars |
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| Auxiliary Telescopes | Lighting up the sky | Moonset over Cerro Paranal | Getting dark after moonset |
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| Lasers and the Milky Way | Lasers in the sky | Lasers in the sky | Moonlit VLT dome |
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| Moon and lasers in the sky | Green flash registered from Cerro Paranal | Lasers in the night | Lasers in the night |
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| Lasers in the night | Lasers in the night | Moon, lasers and the Milky Way | Auxiliary Telescopes on Cerro Paranal |
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| Moon and lasers in the sky | Zoom nel cuore della Via Lattea | Rappresentazione artistica dell’eclisse solare totale del 2 luglio 2019 | Il percorso dell’eclisse solare totale del 2231 |
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| Zoom sulla giovane stella HD 163296 | La parata dei pianeti: i sette pianeti di TRAPPIST-1 | Zoom sul Campo Ultra-profondo di Hubble osservato da MUSE | Zoom sulla supergigante rossa Antares |
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| Star-roof takes its position | Star-roof takes its position | The bright of the Moon | Moonrise |
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| The Milky Way crosses a Greek summer sky | Panoramica della galassia ellittica gigante Centauro A (NGC 5128) e dei suoi strani ammassi globulari | Video in dissolvenza: confronto tra le due vedute della Nebulosa Trifida in luce visibile e infrarossa. | Zoom sulla nebulosa oscura LDN 483. |
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| Rappresentazione artistica dell'asteroide (25143) Itokawa | Rappresentazione artistica dell'asteroide (25143) Itokawa | Zoom sulla veduta della Nebulosa Zampa di Gatto NGC 6334 fornita da ArTeMiS | Panoramica della testa della Nebulosa Gabbiano |
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| La polvere della Cintura di Orione al setaccio (zoom) | Zooming in on Atoms-for-Peace: a galactic collision in action | Animation of the planetary system around Sun-like star HD 10180 (artist’s impression) | Zooming in on the VISTA view of the Tarantula Nebula |
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| The MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 2) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope — 7 | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 3) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope — 6 |
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| The stellar cluster NGC 2467 | The MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 1) | ESO Movie 27c: Astronomy from Planet Earth (French) | ESO Movie 27: Astronomy from Planet Earth (English) |
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| ESO Movie 27b: Astronomy from Planet Earth (German) | ESO Movie 27d: Astronomy from Planet Earth (Italian) | The emission nebula N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | TheMPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 6) |
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| The MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 4) | The MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 5) | Colliding Galaxies: NGC 5917 and MCG-01-39-003 | The emission nebula NGC 3603 |
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| The barred spiral galaxy NGC 613 | Zooming in on the Jewel Box | Zooming onto Messier 4 | Zoom in on the embedded star cluster RCW 38 |
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| Il proto-superammasso Hyperion | In volo dalla Terra fino al buco nero centrale della Via Lattea | Artist’s impression video of the black hole binary system in NGC 3201 | Artist’s impression video of the black hole binary system in NGC 3201 |
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