ESOcast 183 Light: Stunning Exoplanet Time-lapse (4K UHD)
ESO's planet-hunting instrument SPHERE on the VLT has caught sight of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b emerging from the bright halo of its parent star, 64 light-years away.
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
Directed by: Nico Bartmann.
Editing: Nico Bartmann.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Ivana Kurecic and Calum Turner.
Music: tonelabs – Noizefield (http://www.tonelabs.com).
Footage and photos: ESO, Lagrange, SPHERE consortium, UHD Team, Digitized Sky Survey 2, L. Calçada, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org).
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
About the Video
Id: | esocast183a |
Release date: | 12 November 2018, 17:00 |
Duration: | 01 m 30 s |
Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
Type: | Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System |
Category: | ESOcast Exoplanets |