Images

Posing by an Antenna

Inauguration Speech

Inauguration Speech

Snow and APEX

Filming Near ALMA

Pin-pricks in the sky

Adrift at sea

Exciting sodium

Paranal by day

Streaks

Sweeping vista over Paranal

Best show in the world

Revolutionary

Chajnantor landscape

VLT from Afar

Paranal observing preparatives

Refilling liquid nitrogen

VLT staff portrait

ALMA antenna array

ALMA assembly site and Andes

Assembling an ALMA antenna reflector

Football matches at 2,900 metres

ALMA from the Sky

VLT 360 degree view of VLT and Paranal

APEX Seen from Above

Herd of antennas

Astronomer at Paranal

Sunset at Valle de la Luna

Night time view of the ESO Very Large Telescope

Startrails over Cerro Paranal in 1987

ALMA Antennas

Still from Matrix Workshop

President Barroso tours the VLT platform

Barroso at the VLT

The European Extremely Large Telescope

Infrared view of the Rho Ophiuchi star-forming region

Sugar molecules in the gas surrounding a young Sun-like star

Artist���s impression of glycolaldehyde molecules

Stripping aluminium

Preparing glue for ALMA

Road to the VLT

VLT Survey Telescope

Atacama Desert in bloom

Site testing for the VLT on Cerro Armazones

The ESO 3.6-metre telescope construction

Flying above La Silla in 1970

The Prince and Princess of Asturias during their visit to ESO's Paranal Observatory

Matta���s Universes

Galaxy Clusters (artist's impression)

The President of the Czech Republic at the MMB