KiDS is one of the ESO Public Surveys carried out with OmegaCAM at the VST. Once complete, it will have observed 1350 square degrees in four filters (u, g, r, i). Born to be a weak lensing shear tomography survey, it will also map the large-scale matter distribution in the universe and constrain the equation of state of Dark Energy. Its secondary science cases include galaxy evolution to Milky Way structure and from the detection of white dwarfs to high-redshift quasars.

All qualifying GIRAFFE Medusa data are now processed into stacked 1D spectra, whenever the observing block that created the raw products contains more than one SCIENCE exposure. Backwards processing of stacks for the historical part is also completed such that more than 360,000  1D spectra products are available as processed in-house products from the Archive Science portal. Single-exposure 1D spectra are also produced and can be found as associated ancillary files or as science products, if originating observing block contains a single exposure only.

The VVVX -VVV eXtended- is an ESO Public Survey that was approved as part of the second cycle of Public Surveys with VISTA. This project extends the VVV observing parameter space both in area and time. Primarily VVVX includes portions of the Southern galactic plane that were not covered by VVV. Furthermore it will provide additional epochs to the VVV area in order to improve proper motion precision and keep monitoring the long term variable stars.

The ESO APEX science operations team have now started the processing of public APEX archival data using standard calibrations. The released science data consist of a flux map.

All VIMOS imaging science observations from April 2016 until the end of VIMOS operations in March 2018 have now been processed by ESO and are added to the VIMOS imaging data release. The latest release consists of 466 images and extracted source catalogues at the observing block level in Multi-Extension Fits (MEF) files, with a total size of 51.73 GB. The full VIMOS imaging collection of science data products consists of 38,100 frames with a total size of 1.9 Tb.

Galaxy Clusters At Vircam (GCAV) is a survey belonging to the second cycle of ESO VISTA Public Surveys. It is aimed at observing 20 clusters of galaxies covering in total ~30 deg2 in the infrared Y, J, and Ks bands. It will mainly explore galaxy evolution over a large, and largely unexplored, diversity of cluster environments. The DR1 release concerns 9 clusters and contains tile images and related source lists from data collected over the period from October 2016 to the end of September 2017. For two clusters, RXCJ1514.9-1523 and RXCJ2129.6+0005 with complete observations during periods P98 and P99, deep stacks in Y, J and Ks filters are also released, as well as merged catalogues containing aperture matched photometry in the filter bands of the deep stacks.

The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) is a ground based exoplanet survey designed to detect Neptune and super-Earth sized planets orbiting around bright stars, using the transit method. The NGTS facility consists of 12 fully-robotic 20cm f/2.8 telescopes located on ESO ground in Paranal. Each telescope has a 2.8x2.8 deg² field of view and is equipped with a custom filter with a bandpass of 520-890nm, which increases sensitivity to late-K and early-M stars.