Images

ALMA antenna at Chajnantor

VST image of the Hercules galaxy cluster

A Shadow at Sunrise

The unusual double star SS Leporis

Artists���s impression of one of more than 50 new exoplanets found by HARPS: the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b

Superbubble LHA 120-N 44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

ESO's New Compact Laser Guide Star Unit Tested

Huge storm on Saturn observed by ESO's Very Large Telescope

The disturbed galactic duo NGC 3169 and NGC 3166

From One "Alien World" to Another

Crash of the Titans

Starry night at the Atacama Desert Coast

TRAPPIST First Light Image of the Spiral Galaxy Messier 83

Three ALMA antennas close together on Chajnantor

SEST at La Silla at Sunset

Assembly of a European ALMA Antenna

The Hidden Engine of NGC 4945

Transporting an Auxiliary Telescope

The Laser Guide System

NTT and ESO 3.6-metre telescopes

APEX Antenna

Atacama Pathfinder Experiment

Laser Beam Creating an ���Artificial��� Star

Laser Beam Creating an ���Artificial��� Star

APEX Antenna

Reflection Nebula around HD 87643

Material Surrounding the Black Hole Sagittarius A*

Disc Around Young Star

Planet-forming disc (Artist's Impression)

Green Flash at Paranal

The Comet and the Laser

An Artificial Star Above Paranal

Spiral Galaxy Messier 83

The Horsehead Nebula

Detail of a View Towards the Great Attractor

Protostar HH-34 in Orion

The WLM galaxy on the edge of the Local Group

Artist���s impression of a transitional disc around a young star

Morning Star at La Silla

Rainbow Rising

A tilted view

A tilted view

Panorama of a beautiful habitate in the desert

A good night to work

Merging galaxies in the distant Universe through a gravitational magnifying glass

Artist���s impression of dust formation around a supernova explosion

Otto at Night

Chajnantor Plateau

The contrasting galaxies NGC 1316 and 1317

Artist's impression of Beta Pictoris