Portrait of a Dramatic Stellar Crib. One square degree image of the Tarantula Nebula and its surroundings. The spidery nebula is seen in the upper-centre of the image (Credit: ESO/R. Fosbury (ST-ECF))
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Antennae Galaxies composite of ALMA and Hubble observations
Antennae Galaxies composite of ALMA and Hubble observations (Credit:
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope)
The Helix Nebula*
This colour-composite image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager (WFI), an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2-metre Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile (Credit: ESO)
VISTA gigapixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way
The centre of the Milky Way (detail), as observed with the VISTA survey telescope (Credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti)
The European Southern Observatory builds and operates a suite of the world’s most advanced ground-based astronomical telescopes
The European Southern Observatory builds and operates a suite of the world’s most advanced ground-based astronomical telescopes
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Colour composite image of Centaurus A, revealing the lobes and jets emanating from the active galaxy’s central black hole. This is a composite of images obtained with three instruments, operating at very different wavelengths. (Credit: ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray))
Professor Tim de Zeeuw, Director-General, ESO
Professor Tim de Zeeuw, Director-General, ESO
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The Future European Extremely Large Telescope (Credit: Swinburne Astronomy Productions/ESO)
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Panorama (Credit: ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org))
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Panorama (Credit: ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org))
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