ESOcast 226 Light: First Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-like Star
The SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope has captured the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets.
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: Herbert Zodet.
Editing: Herbert Zodet.
Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Stephanie Rowlands, Emma Foxell and Bárbara Ferreira.
Music: GARRISON/New Horizons — The dreams of Morpheus.
Footage and photos: ESO, Bohn et al., L. Calçada, Space Engine (spaceengine.org), B. Tafreshi (twanight.org) and C. Malin (christophmalin.com).
Scientific consultants:Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova.
About the Video
| Id: | eso2011a |
| Release date: | 22 July 2020, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | eso2011 |
| Duration: | 01 m 27 s |
| Frame rate: | 25 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | TYC 8998-760-1 |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System |
| Category: | ESOcast |
