ESOcast 58: ALMA Discovers Comet Factory
The detection of this “dust trap” solves a long-standing mystery: how dust particles around stars sum up to form planets, comets, and other rocky bodies. ESOcast 58 goes deep into the dust trap to explore how this comet factory works.
Credit:
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO).
Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser and Luis Calçada.
Editing: Herbert Zodet.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Javier Perez Barbuzano, Richard Hook and Herbert Zodet.
Narration: Dr. J.
Music: movetwo.
Footage and photos: ESO, Nienke van der Marel, Christoph Malin (christophmalin.com), Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org), Digitized Sky Survey 2, Stéphane Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard), Luis Calçada, José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org) and NASA/JPL-Caltech/Robert Hurt (SSC/Caltech).
Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
About the Video
| Id: | eso1325a |
| Release date: | 6 June 2013, 20:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1325 |
| Related announcements: | ann13052 |
| Duration: | 04m 10s |
About the Object
| Name: | Oph-IRS 48, Ophiuchus |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar Object • Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Disk • X - Stars • X - ESOcast • X - HD Videos |
