Images

Planetary Nebula Hen 2-428

Centre of Galaxy Cluster MS1008.1-1224

FORS1 mounted at ANTU

Galaxy Cluster CL2244-02 with Gravitational Arcs

A Strange Supernova with a Gamma-Ray Burst

A Strange Supernova with a Gamma-Ray Burst

FORS1 First Light - Distant cluster of galaxies

First Images from VLT Science Verification Programme

Petroglyphs around La Silla

Lunar illumination

Glittering galactic bulge

Snowy Scene atop Chajnantor

La Silla's Rocky Landscape

Moonlit La Silla

Cerro Armazones

Part of the Coalsack Nebula

Art exhibit at ALMA

Art exhibit at ALMA

Art exhibit at ALMA

ALMA and surroundings

ALMA's dramatic home

AT4

A desert refuge

Aerial View of ESO Headquarters in Garching near Munich

VISTA views the Trifid and reveals hidden variable stars (wider field view)

Telescope in the middle of nowhere

Milky Way at the Residencia

Heavy lifter at work

Headquarters extension in a mirror ball

In View of our Cool Universe

Scenic Viewing

Surface map of Luhman 16B recreated from VLT observations (annotated)

Penitentes 2

Penitentes 2

Scenic Viewing

Star Trails Above the VLT

OSF Antennas Panorama

VLT domes at night

Simulation of gas cloud being ripped apart by the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way

ESO Very Large Telescope

Revealing a hidden Universe

Building the VLT

Aerial view of ESO headquarters

One of the four Unit Telescopes of the VLT in its dome

ALMA view of the Antennae Galaxies

The star cluster NGC 2100 in context

The first ALMA antennas on Chajnantor

VLT��s Auxiliary Telescopes Opening

Hubble image of the distance-record galaxy UDFy-38135539

An asteroid that has split due to rotational fission (artist���s impression)