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Zoom into Double Star within Orion's Trapezium Cluster | ESO

Zoom into Double Star within Orion's Trapezium Cluster | ESO

As part of the first observations with the GRAVITY instrument, the European Southern Observatory team looked closely at the bright, young stars known as the Trapezium Cluster, located in the heart of the Orion star-forming region. Already, from these first data, GRAVITY made a discovery: one of the components of the cluster (Theta1 Orionis F) was found to be a double star for the first time.

This zoom video starts with a broad view of the famous constellation of Orion (The Hunter) and then shows successively more detailed images of the region with different telescopes. The final view from GRAVITY reveals far finer detail around one of the fainter cluster stars than could be detected even with the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope.

Distance: 1,500 light years


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/M. McCaughrean/GRAVITY consortium, Nick Risinger

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: January 13, 2016


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