Zooming in on R Aquarii
This zoom video starts with a wide view of the Milky Way and ends with a close-up look at the chaotic and fascinating binary star system R Aquarii.
The image shown in this final image of this video is data from the SPHERE/ZIMPOL instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), and shows the binary star itself, as well as the jets of material spewing from the interacting stellar couple.
Credit:ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2, ESA/Hubble, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org). Music: astral electronic
About the Video
| Id: | eso1840b |
| Release date: | 12 December 2018, 14:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1840 |
| Duration: | 50 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
