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Zooming in on R Aquarii | ESO

Zooming in on R Aquarii | ESO

This zoom video starts with a wide view of the Milky Way and ends with a close-up look at the chaotic and fascinating binary star system R Aquarii.

The image shown in this final image of this video is data from the SPHERE/ZIMPOL instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), and shows the binary star itself, as well as the jets of material spewing from the interacting stellar couple.


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO), Digitized Sky Survey 2, ESA/Hubble, Nick Risinger 

Music: astral electronic

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: December 12, 2018


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