Journey to 'Baby' Star & Planetary System HOPS-315 in Orion | ESO

Journey to 'Baby' Star & Planetary System HOPS-315 in Orion | ESO

This video zooms into HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have identified gas condensing into solid minerals for the first time. This zoom was created with images from several telescopes stitched together, covering progressively smaller areas in the sky. Most of the video shows the night sky in visible light, and at the end we see an image taken with the ALMA radio telescope at sub millimetre wavelengths.

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger/Digitized Sky Survey 2/VISTA/ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al.
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: July 16, 2025

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