ESOcast 129 Light: The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula (4K UHD)
The spectacular planetary nebula NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles, lit up in glorious pinks and blues.
This colourful image was captured by the powerful MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), as part of a study which mapped the dust inside a planetary nebula for the first time.
The video is available in 4K UHD.
The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The ESOcast Light episodes will not be replacing the standard, longer ESOcasts, but complement them with current astronomy news and images in ESO press releases.
Credit:ESO.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
About the Video
Id: | eso1731a |
Release date: | 27 September 2017, 12:00 |
Related releases: | eso1731 |
Duration: | 01 m 35 s |
Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
Name: | NGC 7009, Saturn Nebula |
Type: | Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary |
Category: | ESOcast Nebulae |