Images

ESO 3.6-metre telescope

ESO 3.6-metre telescope

ESO 3.6-metre telescope

President Sebasti��n Pi��era of Chile and his wife, Cecilia Morel, in the Paranal Control Room

One of the Band 5 receivers for ALMA

La Silla Hotel

The camera of VISTA

ESO VISTA telescope

Construction of the ALMA Central Office building

View of Cerro Paranal

FLAMES' plates

La Silla Inauguration

The ESO 1.52-metre telescope

La Silla Hotel

The Electronic Workshop at La Silla Observatory

Electrical supplies to La Silla Observatory

Touring the Atacama Desert

An Excursion to Paranal

Bernard Pillier at the Sky Atlas Laboratory

A stream of water at the Pelicano camp.

A stream of water at the Pelicano camp.

Life at La Silla Observatory in 1969

VLT Site Testing

Signing the ESO CERN contract for collaboration

The primary mirror of the ESO 3.6-metre telescope before installation

Inside La Silla

Shooting of Fill Us With Fire video with Erasure singer Andy Bell

Vienna Planetarium

Visible/infrared comparison views of the newly discovered globular cluster VVV CL001

SLODAR Instrument at Paranal

Wide-field view of the sky around the Leo Triplet of galaxies

View from the ESO Residencia at Paranal during a rare storm

Royal Observatory Greenwich

A main street in Antofagasta

Close-up of the drama of star formation (annotated)

Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture at JENAM 2010

Caf�� & Kosmos: "The Big Bang in the Tunnel"

Prof. Adriaan Blaauw (1914���2010) visits Vitacura offices

The lightweight, rigid reference optic for the new deformable secondary mirror at ESO's VLT

Joachim Krautter and Lodewijk Woltjer at the ESO stand at JENAM 2010

VLT Primary Mirror: Still Liquid!

TRAPPIST at La Silla

VLT��s UT2 mirror recoating

Antenna foundations for ALMA's Atacama Compact Array

Artist���s impression of an exoplanet in a retrograde orbit

Light echoes from SN 1987A

Light echoes from SN 1987A

Neighbourhood of SN 1987A

High resolution SN 1987A by NTT

Ring-shaped nebula around SN 1987A