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| Ensimmäinen visuaalinen todiste kahdesti räjähtäneestä tähdestä | ESO News | Matka upeaan RCW 38 -tähtijoukkoon | The fate of stars like the Sun | Tähtien yhteentörmäys on ratkaissut tähtimysteerin | ESO News |
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| ESOcast 232 Light: Stars and Skulls | ESOcast 227 Light: Stunning Space Butterfly Captured by ESO Telescope | ESOcast 195 Light: A Cosmic Bat in Flight | ESOcast 180 Light: The Pirate of the Southern Skies (4K UHD) |
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| ESOcast 171 Light: Colourful Celestial Landscape (4K UHD) | ESOcast 162 Light: A Crowded Neighbourhood (4K UHD) | ESOcast 154 Light: ALMA Reveals Inner Web of Stellar Nursery (4K UHD) | ESOcast 129 Light: The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula (4K UHD) |
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| ESOcast 90 Light: Orion’s Cloudy Secrets (4K UHD) | ESOcast 14: Orion in a New Light | Lupus 3 cloud | 3D animation of M17 (Europe to the Stars clip) |
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| 3D animation of the Cone Nebula (Europe to the Stars clip) | 3D Animation of the Carina Nebula | Messier 78 (3D animation) | 3D data visualisation of the Pillars of Creation |
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| Zooming into VISTA’s infrared view of the Orion Nebula | Zoomaus Kartiosumuun | Zooming in on a rich region of star formation | 3D animation of the Orion nebula |
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| 3D animation of the Orion nebula | Zooming in on Messier 78 | A close look at the star formation region Messier 17 | Zooming in on the star formation region Messier 17 |
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| eso1425a-fulldome-pan | Eta Carinae over ALMA | The region of the Eagle Nebula seen with the VST | Highlights from huge VST nebula image |
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| Zooming into the Cat's Paw Nebula | The Sharpless 2-54 region seen with ESO's VST | Infrared/visible crossfade of the Orion Nebula | IC 2944 Fulldome Video |
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| A Christmas Tree and a Cone in fulldome | Zoom-in onto Gum 19 | Panning across the Carina Nebula around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22 | Close-up zoom on the star-forming region NGC 346 |
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| Zooming in on the Carina Nebula around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22 | Zoom in on the star-forming region NGC 346 | The Horsehead Nebula | Zooming in on ALMA's view of the Orion Nebula |
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| Fly through the Sh2-46 nebula | Panning across ALMA's view of the Orion Nebula | The Omega Nebula region seen with the VST | Panoroiden halki VST-teleskoopin uuden Laguunisumua esittävän kuvan |
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| Zoomaten uuteen VST-teleskoopin kuvaan Laguunisumusta | Tulta pimeyteen (zoom) | Zoomaten pimeään pilveen Lupus 3 ja siihen liittyviin kuumiin, nuoriin tähtiin | Zooming in on the planetary nebula Fleming 1 |
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| A close-up view of the planetary nebula Fleming 1 seen with ESO’s Very Large Telescope | Panoroiden yli pimeän sumun Barnard 59 | Zoomaten pimeään sumuun Barnard 59 | An infrared/visible light comparison of views of the Helix Nebula |
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| 1,5 miljardin pikselin "Juokseva kana"-sumu | Zooming in on the Prawn Nebula | Panning across the VISTA infrared view of the Orion Nebula | Zoomataan NGC 6164/6165-sumuun, joka ympäröi HD 148937 tähtiparia |
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| Zooming in on the planetary nebula ESO 378-1 | Zooming into VISTA’s infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula | Animaatio kaksoisräjähdyssupernovasta | Panning across the Gum 3 nebula |
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| Lento kuolleen tähden jäännösten läpi | Zooming in on the Skull Nebula | A close-up look at the Prawn Nebula | Paranal time-lapse |
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| The Anvil of Creation | The Anvil of Creation | Panning across the planetary nebula ESO 378-1 | Panning across the VISTA infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula |
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| Zoomataan RCW 38:aan infrapunavalossa | Carina Nebula (fulldome) | Zooming into the Cosmic Seagull | Panning across the Cosmic Seagull |
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| Infrared/visible crossfade of the Cat’s Paw Nebula | Zoom in onto NGC 1788 | Panning across the IC 1284 nebula | 30 Doradus in optical to radio wavelengths |
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| Panning across NGC 2467 | Panning across a deep infrared image of the Orion Nebula | Tulta pimeyteen (panorointi) | Zooming in on a new VISTA image of the Orion A molecular cloud |
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| The Dumbbell Nebula | 3D-näkymä NGC 6164/6165-sumusta, joka ympäröi HD 148937 tähtiparia | Zooming in on the planetary nebula NGC 2899 | Slider comparison of visible and infrared views of the Orion A molecular cloud |
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| Visible/infrared comparison of views of the Orion A molecular cloud | Zooming in on the star-forming region Messier 17 | Zooming in on the cometary globule CG4 | Zooming in on a stellar nursery in Corona Australis |
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| Virtual reality flight through the Orion Nebula | Infrared-visual crossfade, Flame Nebula | Panning across VISTA’s view of the Flame Nebula | Infrared-visual crossfade, Flame Nebula (Annotated) |
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| Zooming in on VISTA’s view of the Flame Nebula | 3D view of the Carina Nebula | A flythrough-loop through an image of the North America Nebula | Fly over a spooky cosmic bat |
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