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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has been a cornerstone of European astronomy for more than five decades and is today the leading ground-based observatory on the planet. It manages the Paranal and La Silla observatories and is the European partner in the ALMA observatory, and in a few years the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) and Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will become operational also in the Paranal region.
In this talk, I will give a brief overview of where ESO is today, some examples of the high-impact science enabled by ESO before looking towards the future with an overview of the 39m Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) and Expanding Horizons, the process to identify the next major ESO programme after the completion of the ELT.