Images

Hubble infrared image of the most remote mature cluster of galaxies yet found

Wide-field view of the sky around the remote cluster CL J1449+0856

Wide-field view of the field around NGC 7252: the Atoms-for-Peace galaxy

Extracts from the VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey view of the Tarantula Nebula

Opening VISTA

Filming at Paranal

Archaeology in Atacama's Chilean desert

ALMA site

Archaeology in Atacama's Chilean desert

Archaeology in Atacama's Chilean desert

Big and bigger telescopes

Life in the Desert

Archaeology in Atacama's Chilean desert

ALMA site

Around the Alma Site

Life in the Desert

Desert Flowers

ALMA site

E-ELT Active Segmented Mirror

Menonvillea

Plants in the Desert

Paranal Liquid Nitrogen Facility

Desert Flowers

Menonvillea

ALMA site

ALMA Antenna Docking Pad

The ALMA Array - 3D Rendering

ALMA site

Atacama Plants

ALMA site

The two ALMA antennas

The Ultra Luminous Merger IRAS 06035-7102

The Merging System Arp 220

Fragment B of Comet SW-3

The Distant Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 050904

"First Fringes" with two ATs

SINFONI Observations of the AGN Galaxy NGC 7469

The Nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

The Crab Nebula

FORS2 at KUEYEN

Inspecting the Reflective Surface

Lifting of the Mirror Cell

Control Building and Satellite Antenna

Coating Chamber

8.2-m Zerodur Mirror: Protective Layer Removal

8.2-m Zerodur Mirror

Lowering of the M3 MELIPAL Mirror

Arrival at the MELIPAL Enclosure

8.2-m Zerodur Mirror

8.2-m Zerodur Mirror Resting in its Cell