ESOcast 123 Light: Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere (4K UHD)

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer astronomers have constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the first map of the velocities of material the atmosphere of a star other than the Sun, revealing unexpected turbulence in Antares’s huge extended atmosphere.

This short ESOcast takes a quick look at this remarkable result.

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.

Visual Design and Editing: Nico Bartmann.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Izumi Hansen and Richard Hook.
Music: Music written and performed by STAN DART (www.stan-dart.com).
Footage and photos: ESO, K. Ohnaka, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), M. Kornmesser, spaceengine.org.
Directed by: Nico Bartmann.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.

About the Video

Id:eso1726a
Release date:23 August 2017, 12:00
Related releases:eso1726
Duration:01 m 28 s
Frame rate:30 fps

About the Object

Name:Antares
Type:Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Red Supergiant
Category:ESOcast
Stars

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