ESOcast 221 Light: ESO Telescope Sees Signs of Planet Birth
Observations with ESO’s SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope have revealed the telltale signs of a star system being born.
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: Caitlyn Buongiorno, Stephanie Rowlands and Bárbara Ferreira.
Music: tonelabs (www.tonelabs.com) – The Red North.
Footage and photos: ESO, Boccaletti et al., L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), M. Kornmesser and C. Malin (christophmalin.com).
Scientific consultants: Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova.
About the Video
| Id: | eso2008a |
| Release date: | 20 May 2020, 14:00 |
| Related releases: | eso2008 |
| Duration: | 01 m 26 s |
| Frame rate: | 25 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | AB Aurigae |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Type : Variable |
| Category: | ESOcast Stars |
