The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, commonly referred to as the European Southern Observatory, is an intergovernmental research organisation made up of 16 m
The ESO headquarters in Garching, Germany, in 1997
The same site in 2014, a year after a new extension was built (in the foreground)
Directors general of ESO (from left to right): Lodewijk Woltjer, Harry van der Laan, Catherine Cesarsky, Tim de Zeeuw and Xavier Barcons
La Silla cluster of telescopes
Paranal Observatory
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Paranal Observatory is an astronomical observatory operated by the European Southern Observatory. It is located in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile on Cerro Paranal at 2,635 m altitude, 120 km sou
European Southern Observatory
…La Silla, which hosts the New Technology Telescope (NTT) Paranal, where the Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located Llano de Chajnantor, where ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, is located…
Aerial view of the ESO Very Large Telescope
The four VLTs and ATs and the VST on the main peak and VISTA in the background
Main entrance of the Paranal Observatory
A 360-degree panorama of the southern sky above the Paranal platform