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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 | Zooming in on the HII Region LHA 120-N 180B | 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 | Objects in the sky during the La Silla total solar eclipse (English) | Orbits of three stars very close to the centre of the Milky Way | NGC 6369 AO on/off crossfade |
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| Panning across the Orion Nebula | Zooming in on the Orion Nebula | The TRAPPIST telescope in its dome at La Silla | View from the inside of TRAPPIST |
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| A close look at the sky around the star formation region RCW 106 | Close-up view of the surroundings of the interacting galaxy NGC 5291 | The colourful star cluster NGC 2367 | 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 | 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 | Pan across new VLT image of NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 | Zooming in on an APEX view of part of the Orion Nebula | Zooming in on the planetary nebula IC 1295 |
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| Gravitational lensing of distant star-forming galaxies (schematic) | ALMA Operational Support Facility (part 4) | ALMA Operational Support Facility (part 7) | ALMA Operational Support Facility (part 6) |
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| ALMA Operational Support Facility (part 3) | ALMA Operational Support Facility (part 2) | Artist's impression of the evolution of a hot high-mass binary star (annotated version) | Panning across the stellar nursery NGC 6357 |
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| Panning over the radio galaxy Centaurus A, as seen by 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) | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 10) | The spiral galaxy NGC 3190 |
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| MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope (part 9) | The galaxy NGC 4565 | 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 | Flight above the VLT Paranal Observatory |
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| VLT Unit Telescope 1 during integration | ELT main mirror segments shipped to Chile | Panning across the Sh2-284 nebula | Panning across the Cosmic Bat |
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| Artist's impression of the Veil Nebula (fulldome) | Lost in space (artist's impression) | Orbit in exile | Animation of the path of a light ray through 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 finds hidden feature of Milky Way |
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| Zooming in on the oldest solar twin HIP 102152 | Three-dimensional view of ALMA observations of the outflows from NGC 253 | Gas cloud falling in towards the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way | Computer simulation of dust trap formation |
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| Panning across a VST image of the Carina Nebula | ALMA Operational Support Facility (part 1) | Infrared/visible light comparison of VISTA’s gigapixel view of the centre of the Milky Way | The Cool Clouds of Carina |
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| Zooming in on the flames of Betelgeuse | Glueing of an antenna | Glueing of an antenna | Glueing of an antenna |
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| Glueing of an antenna | Glueing of an antenna | Glueing of an antenna | Glueing of an antenna |
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| Glueing of an antenna | Glueing of an antenna | Glueing of an antenna | Glueing of an antenna |
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