Cutaway animation of the SPHERE instrument on the VLT
An artist impression of 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
About the Video
| Id: | sphere1 |
| Release date: | 4 June 2014, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1417 |
| Duration: | 16 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument (SPHERE) |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument |
| Category: | Paranal |
