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A Red Giant Star Dancing with the Enemy | ESO

A Red Giant Star Dancing with the Enemy | ESO

ESOcast 188 Light: While testing a new subsystem on the SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers were able to capture dramatic details of the turbulent stellar relationship in the binary star R Aquarii with unprecedented clarity—even compared to observations from Hubble.


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Directed by: Nico Bartmann

Editing: Nico Bartmann

Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida

Written by: Sara Rigby and Calum Turner

Music: tonelabs – Orion Fog

Footage and photos: ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger, Schmid et al., ESA, Hubble, M. Kornmesser, T. Liimets et al.  

Scientific consultant: Paola Amico

Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

Duration: 1 minute, 27 seconds

Release Date: December 12, 2018


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