Zooming into HR 6819
This video starts by showing a wide-field view of a region of the sky in the constellation of Telescopium. It then zooms in to show HR 6819, a triple system with two stars visible to the naked eye and a black hole, the closest ever found to Earth.
Credit:ESO/L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org). Music: Astral Electronic
About the Video
| Id: | eso2007c |
| Release date: | 6 May 2020, 14:00 |
| Related releases: | eso2007 |
| Duration: | 50 s |
| Frame rate: | 25 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | HR 6819 |
| Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |
