SPHERE 4

An artist impression of light travelling through the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument. An instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope with the primary objective of discovering and studying extrasolar giant planets orbiting nearby stars. 

Credit:

ESO/L. Calçada/Jean-Luc Beuzit/Eric Stadler/IPAG Grenoble

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Id:sphere4
Release date:21 September 2013, 03:50
Duration:21 s
Frame rate:30 fps

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