Videos tagged “europeansouthernobservatory”
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Zooming into the star cluster NGC 6520 and the dark cloud Barnard 86
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This video sequence starts with a view of the spectacular Milky Way. As we zoom in towards the centre we see a huge cloud of faint stars, this is the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. On top of this cloud…
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Panning across part of the Seagull Nebula
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This pan video gives a close-up view of the intricate structure of part of the Seagull Nebula. These wisps of gas and dust are known as Sharpless 2-296 and form part of the “wings” of the celestial…
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Zooming in on the wings of the Seagull Nebula
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This video sequence starts with a broad view of the Milky Way before closing in on the familiar bright star Sirius and the nearby constellation of Orion (The Hunter). We see a faint red object resembling…
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Setting the Dark on Fire (pan)
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A new image from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile shows a beautiful view of clouds of cosmic dust in the region of Orion. While these dense interstellar clouds seem dark…
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Setting the Dark on Fire (zoom)
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A new image from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile shows a beautiful view of clouds of cosmic dust in the region of Orion. While these dense interstellar clouds seem dark…
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A close look at the globular star cluster 47 Tucanae
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This video sequence pans across a wide view of the region of sky surrounding the Small Magellanic Cloud, finally zooming in on the patch of sky containing the bright and beautiful globular cluster…
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Artist's impression of the disc and gas streams around HD 142527
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This artist's impression shows the disc of gas and cosmic dust around the young star HD 142527. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have seen vast streams…
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The young star HD 142527 (zoom)
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This video starts with a broad panorama of the spectacular central regions of the Milky Way seen in visible light. It then zooms in to the young star HD 142527. More information and download-options: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1301b/ Credit: ALMA…
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ESOcast 51: All Systems Go for Highest Altitude Supercomputer
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One of the most powerful supercomputers in the world has now been fully installed and tested at its remote, high altitude site in the Andes of northern Chile. This marks one of the major remaining…
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Evolution of globular clusters
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This video shows the movement of blue straggler stars in globular clusters over time. Blue straggler stars are blue, bright stars, with a higher mass than the average for a cluster, and they are expected…
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