... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Galaxies . ... ESO is releasing a beautiful image of the nearby galaxy Messier 83 taken by the HAWK-I instrument on ESOт??s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The picture shows the galaxy in infrared light and demonstrates the impressive power of the camera to create one of the sharpest and most detailed pictures of Messier 83 ever taken from the ground. ... The classic spiral Messier 83 seen in the infrared with HAWK-I . ...