Images

Iconic, Conical Licancabur Watches Over Chajnantor

Mars, 2099?

Yepun���s Laser and the Magellanic Clouds

Icy Penitents by Moonlight on Chajnantor

ESO Headquarters at Sunset*

Close-up of the drama of star formation

Bird���s Eye View of the Very Large Telescope*

Paranal Observatory and the Volcano Llullaillaco*

Trailing stars above Paranal

370-million-pixel starscape of the Lagoon Nebula

The Trifid Nebula

Spiral Galaxy NGC 253*

Glowing Stellar Nurseries*

ESO���s Very Large Telescope images the Medusa Nebula

VLT image of the cometary globule CG4

VST snaps a very detailed view of the Triangulum Galaxy

Radiance of Milky Way over La Silla

New Image of Comet ISON

A VISTA Before Sunset

The Pencil Nebula, a strangely shaped leftover from a vast explosion

The Moon and the Arc of the Milky Way

APEX Stands Sentry on Chajnantor

The VLT Survey Telescope: the largest telescope in the world designed for visible light sky surveys

Stellar nursery NGC 3603*

One million stars ��� towards the dark heart of the Milky Way*

Celestial Conjunction at Paranal

Group Portrait of the VLT with the Galaxy

Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945

The planetary nebula ESO 378-1

Celestial Nomad Takes Centre Stage

Artist���s impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope

Scarlet and Smoke

The Gum 15 star formation region

Paranal Platform After Sunset*

The Milky Way glitters brightly over ALMA

The planetary nebula Abell 33 captured using ESO's Very Large Telescope

The star formation region NGC 6559

Curious spiral spotted by ALMA around red giant star R Sculptoris (data visualisation)

ALMA antennas under the Milky Way

Dark Sky and White Desert ��� Snow pays a rare visit to ESO���s Paranal Observatory

A Laser Beam Towards the Milky Way's Centre*

Wide Field Imager view of the spiral galaxy NGC 247

Starry La Silla

VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey view of the Tarantula Nebula*

Paranal After Sunset

Panorama of Sunset on Paranal

Really Hot Stars

The Eagle's EGGs *

Image composition of ESO observatories

The star forming cloud RCW 34