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Betelgeuse in Orion (with annotations)

This collage shows the Orion constellation in the sky (Betelgeuse is identified by the marker), a zoom towards Betelgeuse, and the sharpest ever image of this supergiant star, which was obtained with NACO on ESO’s Very Large Telescope.

Bildnachweis:

ESO, P.Kervella, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and A. Fujii

Über das Bild

ID:eso0927c
Typ:Beobachtung
Veröffentlichungsdatum:29. Juli 2009
Dazugehörige Veröffentlichungen:eso0927
Größe:4337 x 1814 px

Über das Objekt

Name:Betelgeuse
Typ:Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Red Giant
Entfernung:650 Lichtjahre
Kategorie:Stars

Bildformate

Großes JPEG
2,2 MB

Bildschirm-Hintergrundbilder

1024x768
315,0 KB
1280x1024
522,6 KB
1600x1200
734,1 KB
1920x1200
858,3 KB
2048x1536
1,1 MB

Farben & Filter

SpektralbereichTeleskop
Optisch
B
Digitized Sky Survey 2
Optisch
R
Digitized Sky Survey 2
Infrarot
Near-IR
Very Large Telescope
NACO