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A view of the Milky Way supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarised light
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Take a tour of the stunning Gum 41 nebula
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Being ExTrA: how to find Earth-like planets
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A futuristic transporter
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A silent watcher
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Who’s the fairest mirror segment of them all?
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Dark and towering
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Planet-forming discs in three clouds of the Milky Way
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Water in the HL Tauri disc
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Artist’s impression of WD 0816-310, a magnetic white dwarf with a metal scar
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A slice of moon cheese, anyone?
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Artist’s impression of the record-breaking quasar J0529-4351
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The next step in gravitational wave studies
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Hiding in the crowd
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Teamwork makes an astronomer’s dream work
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Weighing black holes with GRAVITY+
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The moment of truth
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A giant ghostly bird
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A star goes supernova in a binary system
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A full moon rises
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The Running Chicken Nebula
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ELT mirror segment wrapped for delivery
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Happy Holidays from ESO (2023)
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Road to the ELT
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Chocolate hills in the middle of the desert
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La Silla aerial view
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Artist’s impression of the disc and jet in the young star system HH 1177
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Neighbours in the Atacama Desert
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A magical night in the Atacama Desert
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A stellar graveyard in the sky