ESOcast 217 Light: ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation Orion.

The video is available in 4K UHD.

The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The ESOcast Light episodes will not be replacing the standard, longer ESOcasts, but complement them with current astronomy news and images in ESO press releases.

 

Credit:

ESO

Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Editing : Herbert Zodet.
Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Caitlyn Buongiorno and Bárbara Ferreira.
Music: tonelabs (www.tonelabs.com) – Expect The Unexpected.
Footage and photos: ESO, Kervella/M. Montargès et al., acknowledgement: Eric Pantin, Digitized Sky Survey 2, M. Zamani and P. Horálek.
Scientific consultants: Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova.

About the Video

Id:eso2003a
Release date:14 February 2020, 14:00
Related releases:eso2003
Duration:01 m 29 s
Frame rate:25 fps

About the Object

Name:Betelgeuse
Type:Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Red Supergiant
Category:ESOcast
Stars

Ultra HD (info)


HD


Medium

Video Podcast
17.1 MB

For Broadcasters


Script

English
66.1 KB

Subtitles

Arabic
1.6 KB
Chinese
899 bytes
Czech
1006 bytes
English
1004 bytes
French
1.1 KB
German
1.1 KB
Greek
1.8 KB
Indonesian
1.1 KB
Italian
1.3 KB
Portuguese
1.1 KB
Russian
1.5 KB
Slovenian
1005 bytes
Turkish
1.1 KB
Vietnamese
1.3 KB