Images

E-ELT site testing - Roque de los Muchachos / La Palma, Spain

VLT M1 Production at Schott

An ALMA antenna en route to the plateau of Chajnantor for the first time

The first journey of an ALMA antenna to the plateau of Chajnantor

Neptune's 'Hot' South Pole (VISIR/VLT)

Waking up to science!

Two Quasars with their Host Galaxy

First fringes of Sirius with VLTI

UVES assembly

M1 Mirror: Home

M1 Convoy: Almost There

From Sea to Land

Bumps on the Road

M1 Convoy: Past the Gates

First VLT Mirror Touchdown

First VLT M2 Beryllium Mirror

8.2-m Zerodur Mirror: From Ship to Land

M2 Unit with the Beryllium Mirror

M1 Cell and Dummy Mirror Transportation

In the Atacama Desert

Paranal Mountain Platform

Inside the VLT control Building

Dusty Panamericana Road

Paranal Power Plant

Coating Plant

Arrival at Paranal

Removing the Vacuum Chamber

Installation of the Serrurier Struts

Entering the Enclosure

Serrurier Strut

Lowering the Altitude Axis

Close-up of the Paranal Platform

Lower Intermediate Structure of UT1

Aerial View of Paranal Observatory

Southern View of the Paranal Platform

ISAAC and SOFI

Paranal Observatory: Taking the Bus to the Mountain Top

Installation of the UT2 Baseframe

Aligning the UT1 Intermediate Structures

Paranal Observatory: Unit Telescope no. 1

A Generating Set for VLT

A Power-generating Set for VLT

The Planetary Nebula around Sakurai's Object

Extremely Distant Minor Planet 1992 QB1

Screenshot of ESOcast 82

UK Ambassador to Chile and UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser at ESO's offices in Vitacura

Keeping an eye on things

Technician Enrique Garcia

Fireman and medic Aldo Cerda Fern��ndez

Mechanical technician Victor Polanco