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| The star that should have exploded already: T Coronae Borealis | First zoomed-in picture of an extragalactic star | ESO News | Clash of stars solves stellar mystery | ESO News | Metal scar found on cannibal star | ESOcast Light |
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| Supernovae give rise to black holes or neutron stars (ESOcast 269 Light) | Stellar disc discovered in another galaxy! (ESOCast 268 Light) | New type of star gives clues to magnetars' origins (ESOcast 264 Light) | Observing the ashes of the first stars (ESOcast 261 Light) |
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| The Missing Link for Water in the Solar System (ESOcast 258 Light) | Who Turned off the Lights on Betelgeuse? (ESOcast 238 Light) | ESOcast 229 Light: Planet-forming Disc Torn Apart by its Three Central Stars | ESOcast 225 Light: ESO Telescope Captures Disappearance of Massive Star |
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| ESOcast 221 Light: ESO Telescope Sees Signs of Planet Birth | ESOcast 217 Light: ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse | ESOcast 216 Light: ALMA Catches Beautiful Outcome of Stellar Fight | ESOcast 213 Light: Stunning stars in the Milky Way central region |
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| ESOcast 210 Light: First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision | ESOcast 208 Light: A Cosmic Pretzel (4K UHD) | ESOcast 185 Light: Cosmic Serpent | ESOcast 156 Light: Weird and Wonderful Dusty Discs (4K UHD) |
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| ESOcast 155 Light: Dead Star Circled by Light (4K UHD) | ESOcast 123 Light: Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere (4K UHD) | ESOcast 110 Light: Ingredient for life found around infant stars (4K UHD) | ESOcast 77: Mysterious Ripples Found Racing Through Planet-forming Disc |
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| Strangest stars | Chasing Starlight 7 | ESOcast 58: ALMA Discovers Comet Factory | The scales of the stars | Earth to Alpha Centauri |
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| Zooming in on the location of HL Tauri | The Southern Milky Way band (time-lapse) | Most detailed video yet of bubbles on a star’s surface | Zooming in on Nova Centauri 2013 |
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| Time-lapse sequence with VLT and NTT images | Animation of two circumstellar disk orbiting and accreting gas and dust | Gazing at supernova explosions | Zoom out from Garching to the Universe |
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| How Betelgeuse changed in brightness in 2019–2020 | 3D view of LL Pegasi | Two Small Pieces of Glass — fulldome show trailer — flat version (English) | Planet and Disc around Beta Pictoris |
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| Artist’s animation of a micronova | Artist’s animation of Betelgeuse and its dusty veil | Animation of star plagued by giant magnetic spot | Spots on the Sun vs spots on extreme horizontal branch stars (animation) |
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| Zoom on Eta Carinae | Zoom in on the star GJ1214 | Uncovering supernovae secrets | Artist's animation of a binary with a white dwarf |
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| Fulldome artist’s impression of the hottest and most massive touching double star | Fly through the Sh2-46 nebula | A MUSE view of the 177-341 W young stellar object | A MUSE view of the 244-440 young stellar object |
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| A tour of SN 1987A | ALMA image of the protoplanetary disc around V883 Orionis | Zooming in on the globular star cluster NGC 6752 | The growth of cosmic dust grains in the disc around the brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102 |
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| Artist’s impression of grains in the disc around a brown dwarf | A journey to Alpha Centauri | A fly-through of the Alpha Centauri system | Panning across the globular star cluster Messier 4 |
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| The system Gliese 667 (Artist’s impression) | Artist's impression time-lapse of distant supernovae (fulldome) | Zoom-in on IRAS 13481-6124 | The material around SN 1987A (artist’s impression) |
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| Zooming into the star WOH G64 | Zooming in on the NGC 6164/6165 nebula surrounding the HD 148937 stellar pair | Zoom in on the star GJ1214 (annotated) | Animation of the disc and jet in the HH 1177 young star |
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| Artist’s animation of the surface of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov | Fulldome visualisation of a globular star cluster | Explanation of how the magnetic field on a star affects the light emitted | Artist's animation: the violent history of stellar pair HD 148937 |
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| Something new in the sky | Animation of the orbit of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov | Neutron star merger animation and elements formed in these events | Zooming into the HH 1177 young star |
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| Artist’s animation of the pulsar PSR J1023+0038 | The detection of starspots using polarisation measurements | Zooming in on the globular star cluster NGC 6362 | Panning across the globular star cluster NGC 6362 |
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| GJ1214b (Artist’s impression) | ALMA detects ingredient of life around young Sun-like stars | 3D view of the NGC 6164/6165 nebula surrounding the HD 148937 stellar pair | Artistic animation of the warped and torn apart disc of GW Orionis |
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| Artist's animation of star pair D9 orbiting the supermassive black hole Sgr A* | Star pair D9 orbiting the supermassive black hole Sgr A* (artist's animation) | Zooming in on a stellar nursery in Corona Australis | Zooming into the star T Cha |
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| Betelgeuse before and after dimming (animated) | The ever-changing R Aquarii | Supernova discoveries (fulldome) | Planet with superstorm (artist's impression) |
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| Artist’s animation of the dust trap in IRS 48 | Artist's impression of a superflare | Zooming on Beta Pictoris b | Artist’s animation of WD 0816-310, a magnetic white dwarf, ingesting planetary fragments |
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| Zooming in on Betelgeuse | Artistic animation of the stellar movements in GW Orionis | Star goes supernova (fulldome) | Zooming into HD101584 |
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