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| Supernova explosion 3 | Supernova explosion 1 | Supernova explosion 2 | Zooming in on the exotic binary star AR Scorpii |
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| Zooming in on the Flying Saucer protoplanetary disc | Journey to the Centre of the Milky Way Flattened Version of the Short Fulldome Planetarium Show | Zooming in on the young double star HK Tauri | The vampire double star SS Leporis (unannotated) |
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| Zooming in on the first planet of extragalactic origin | First planet of extragalactic origin (artist's impression) | The orbit of the first planet of extragalactic origin (artist's impression) | Radial velocity |
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| The Milky Way’s central region observed with VISTA and HAWK-I | Zooming in on the birth of a monster star | Dust trap animation | Zoom-in on the double star HD 87643 |
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| Zoom in on Betelgeuse | Zoom-in onto T Leporis | Artist's impression of the whirlpool around a gigantic black hole | Zooming in on Apep |
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| Stars orbiting the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way | Orbits of three stars very close to the centre of the Milky Way | Zooming in on star formation in the southern Milky Way | Artist's impression of Luhman 16B recreated from VLT observations |
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| The life cycle of a Sun-like star | Artist's impression of the evolution of a hot high-mass binary star (annotated version) | First planet of extragalactic origin (artist's impression) | Zoom in on the star CoRoT-7 |
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| The first image of an exoplanet confirmed | The UVES Spectrograph Sees the Sun | VISTA finds hidden feature of Milky Way | Zooming in on the oldest solar twin HIP 102152 |
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| Computer simulation of dust trap formation | Zooming in on the flames of Betelgeuse | Habitable zone | Zooming in on V960 Mon |
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| Artist’s impression of CR7: the brightest galaxy in the early Universe | Flying through the HD 100546 system | The principle of Light Echoes | Simulation of the orbits of stars around the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way |
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| Artist’s impression of the hottest and most massive touching double star | Zooming in on the unusual binary star V471 Tauri | Artist’s impression of two white dwarf stars merging and creating a Type Ia supernova | Zooming in on the nearby brown dwarf Luhman 16B |
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| Artist’s impression of eclipsing binary | The radial velocity method | Zoom-in on Gliese 581 e | Artist’s impression of Gliese 581 d |
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| Light echoes in RS Pup | Hydrogen to helium fusion in a star | Zoom out from Vienna to the Universe | Zooming in on the red giant star L2 Puppis |
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| Summary of ESO Press Conference on 16 October 2017 | The star S2 makes a close approach to the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way | The polarisation of light emitted by a neutron star | Zooming in on Beta Pictoris |
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| Artist’s impression of the yellow hypergiant star HR 5171 | Surface map of Luhman 16B recreated from VLT observations | Artist's impression of the Milky Way | Artist’s impression of the famous exoplanet Tau Boötis b |
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| Zooming in on the unusual double star SS Leporis | VISTA finds hidden feature of Milky Way | A close-up look at star formation in the southern Milky Way | Infrared/visible-light crossfade view of the star cluster NGC 6520 and the dark cloud Barnard 86 |
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| The brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102 | Artist's impression of the evolution of a hot high-mass binary star | Zooming in on the star Tau Boötis | ESO Press Conference on 16 October 2017 |
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| Flying from the Earth to the star U Antliae | Tomography of a cosmic bubble | Zooming in on the yellow hypergiant star HR 5171 | Flying among the closest stars to the Solar System |
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| TAROT discovers a bright supernova in NGC 1365 | Zooming in on NGC 3603 | Zooming in on the kilonova in NGC 4993 | The vampire double star SS Leporis |
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| Zooming in on a neutron star in the Small Magellanic Cloud | Animation of spectra of kilonova in NGC 4993 | Neutron star merger seen in gravity and matter | Artist’s impression of a transitional disc around a young star |
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| Artist’s impression of a transitional disc around a young star | Mysterious ripples moving through the disc of AU Microscopii | Artist's impression of the Gliese 667C system | Artist's impression of the Gliese 667C system |
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| Model of the evolution of the material around the old star R Sculptoris over 2000 years | Panning across NGC 3603 | Neutron star merger animation ending with kilonova explosion | Last dance of neutron star pair |
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| TAROT discovers a bright supernova in NGC 1365 (annotated) | Zooming in on the Oph-IRS 48 system | Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty | Waveforms and chirp |
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| Time-lapse sequence of kilonova images and spectra | Simulation of the X-shaped bulge of the Milky Way | Zoom in the artist’s impression of CoRoT-7b | Pan over the artist’s impression of CoRoT-7b |
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| Changing colour time-lapse from VISTA | Zooming in on the red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris | Artist's impression of the disc around a young star | Artist's impression of vampire star |
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