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| ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 10) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 8) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 4) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 5) |
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| ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 6) | La Silla history 1992 (part 14) | La Silla history 1992 (part 16) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 2) |
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| ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 7) | La Silla history 1992 (part 9) | La Silla history 1992 (part 10) | A Flared Proto-Planetary Disc |
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| The ELT, from the air | APEX holography run | Milky Way gamma ray lobes | Microwave map of the Milky Way |
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| Far infrared map of the Milky Way | Black hole devours a star | The Eagle Nebula | The Crab Nebula |
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| Orbits of the Solar System | X-ray & optical images of a supernova remnant | Active galaxy | Stars merge and go supernova |
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| Exoplanet | Pulsar star | Paranal aerial view | Where the ELT will be |
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| ESO's desert home | The TRAPPIST–South telescope in its dome at La Silla | Excerpt from ESOcast 82 | The sky glimpsed through the trees of a pine forest |
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| VISTA finds hidden feature of Milky Way | Zooming in on the nearby star AU Microscopii | A zoom into Abell 1689 and a very remote dusty galaxy | The enclosure of the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) at Paranal |
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| Zooming in on the dark cloud Lupus 4 | A close-up view of the dark cloud Lupus 4 | A close-up look at star formation in the southern Milky Way | Zooming in on Gum 15 |
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| Gamma-ray burst buried in dust (artist’s impression) | Zooming in on the galaxies NGC 1316 and 1317 | MUSE video of the transit of Europa across the disc of Jupiter | Panning across a VLT view of the Toby Jug Nebula |
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| Scenes from the ALMA inauguration day | Infrared/visible-light crossfade view of the star cluster NGC 6520 and the dark cloud Barnard 86 | Zooming into the star cluster NGC 6520 and the dark cloud Barnard 86 | Evolution of globular clusters |
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| The brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102 | Panning across a new VLT image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1187 | Artist's impression of the evolution of a hot high-mass binary star | Zooming in on the star Tau Boötis |
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| Artist's impression of a sunset on the super-Earth world Gliese 667 Cc | VLT UT1 First Light Video Compilation (May 1998) | ESO Movie 15: Moments of Celebration | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 24) |
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| ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 4) | ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 3) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 12) | ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 5) |
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| The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 23) | ESO 3.6-metre telescope in 1992 (part 11) | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 26) | ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 1) |
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| The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 22) | ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 6) | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 25) | ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope (part 2) |
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| Flickering Black Hole | Chajnantor–Sequitor way | ESPRESSO achieves First Light | Animation of artist's concept of `Oumuamua |
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| ESO Press Conference on 16 October 2017 | Tomography of a cosmic bubble | Flying from the Earth to the star U Antliae | Message for ESO from Steven Wilson |
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| The unique rocky comet C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS) | Excerpt from ESOcast 81 | Hubble view of the galaxy cluster Abell 3827 | A video view of MUSE data of the Hubble Deep Field South |
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| Zooming in on the bright star cluster NGC 3293 | A close-up look at the star cluster NGC 3293 | Panning across the star formation region Gum 41 | Zooming in on the yellow hypergiant star HR 5171 |
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| Panning across the bright star cluster Messier 7 | Flying among the closest stars to the Solar System | TAROT discovers a bright supernova in NGC 1365 | Zooming into the open star cluster NGC 2547 |
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| Comparison of VISTA image of NGC 6357 with a visible light image | Zooming into VISTA's deep view of the COSMOS field | Visible/infrared cross-fade of images of the spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 | ESO Movie 14: Astronomy On-Line |
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| Zooming in on NGC 3603 | Swedish–ESO Submillimetre Telescope (part 3) | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 13) | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 6) |
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| The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 9) | The New Technology Telescope (NTT) (part 7) | Swedish–ESO Submillimetre Telescope (part 1) | Swedish–ESO Submillimetre Telescope (part 2) |
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