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| "From Earth to the Universe" — Sun 360 Panorama | "From Earth to the Universe" — Solar Flare | Artist’s impression of cold intergalactic rain | Artist’s impression of the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 from the surface of one of its planets |
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| Artist’s impression of the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 from close to one of its planets | Halo in the Greek sky | Sunset over Pyrgos | Ivy-covered trees in the Greek autumn |
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| Sunset over Greek pine forest | Blue sky over the Milos bridge | The bridge of Milos | Night sky over the Milos bridge |
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| The Rocky Kipoi valley | Blue sky over Kipoi rocky hills | Blue sky over Agios Christoforos wood | Clouds dancing over the Athens Observatory |
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| Monsters of the Cosmos (fulldome) | CANARY laser star guide fulldome time-lapse | STS-135 fulldome launch | STS-135 fulldome landing |
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| STS-135 fulldome montage | Rock star and astrophysicist Brian May visits Paranal | The problem of making rigid telescope mirrors | Zooming in on a gravitationally lensed galaxy merger in the distant Universe |
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| Landscape around Paranal (Part 5) time-lapse | Paranal Residencia (part 7) | Paranal Residencia (part 3) | Landscape around Paranal (part 2) |
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| VLT time-lapse movie (part 1) | Landscape around Paranal (part 4) | Paranal Residencia (part 5) | Video News Release 2: The high-dispersion UVES spectrograph |
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| Paranal Residencia (part 8) | ISAAC (part 1) | Paranal Residencia (part 6) | VLT time-lapse movie (part 2) |
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| Paranal residencia (part 2) | Landscape around Paranal (part 1) | VLT time-lapse movie (part 3) | Landscape around Paranal (Part 3) |
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| Paranal Residencia (part 4) | Aerial view of ESO Headquarters | View of the orbit of two exoplanets around TYC 8998-760-1 | Artist’s animation of the WDJ0914+1914 system |
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| La Silla Observatory | Europe to the Stars long trailer in German | Europe to the Stars long trailer in English | Panning across NGC 5018 and its surroundings |
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| Time-lapse video sequence of the ExTrA planet-hunting facility at La Silla | Zooming in on the kilonova in NGC 4993 (without annotation) | Spinning supermassive black hole rips star apart (artist’s impression) | New observations with ALMA reveal water snow line around young star |
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| The 1.2-metre telescope at Kryoneri Observatory | 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) |
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| Animation of the principle of the occultation | ALMA glueing time-lapse | Night over Cerro Armazones | VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 2) |
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| NACO (part 1) | SINFONI spectrograph (Part 1) | VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 5) | VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 6) |
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| UVES spectrograph (part 2) | VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 3) | SINFONI spectrograph (part 2) | UVES spectrograph (part 1) |
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| NACO (part 2) | Video News Release 1: Recent work at the first 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT1) | ISAAC (part 2) | VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 4) |
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| VLT Auxiliary Telescope (part 1) | ALMA surroundings — 6 | Zooming in on the black hole and jet of Messier 87 | Animation of the EHT network's radio telescopes |
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| Zooming in to the inner region of the AB Aurigae system | Another artist’s impression of S2’s precession effect | Adventures of Rosetta and Philae Trailer DE | Adventures of Rosetta and Philae Trailer EN |
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| Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, B-roll: Interviews (part2) | Fulldome forest | Zooming in on ESO 577-24 | Vampire star cataclysm (fulldome) |
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| The Secrets of Gravity — In the Footsteps of Albert Einstein (flat trailer in German) | Time-lapse video sequence of the ExTrA planet-hunting facility at La Silla | Time-lapse video sequence of the ExTrA planet-hunting facility at La Silla | Bright halos around distant quasars |
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| Variable RR Lyrae stars | Cross-fade between visible and infrared light images of the Orion Nebula | Close look at the ATLASGAL image of the plane of the Milky Way | Comparison of the central part of the Milky Way at different wavelengths |
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| Artist’s impression of the double-star system GG Tauri-A | A close-up look at the Triangulum Galaxy | Zooming in on the Triangulum Galaxy | Artist’s impression of the quasar 3C 279 |
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| Zooming in on the Running Chicken Nebula | European ALMA antenna brings total on Chajnantor to 16 (time-lapse) | Zooming in on the cluster and nebula NGC 371 | Fox on Cerro Paranal |
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