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.

 

Źródło:

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.

O filmie

Identyfikator:eso2003a
Data publikacji:14 lutego 2020 14:00
Powiązane komunikaty:eso2003
Czas trwania:01 m 29 s
Frame rate:25 fps

O obiekcie

Nazwa:Betelgeuse
Typ:Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Red Supergiant
Kategoria:ESOcast
Stars

Ultra HD (info)


HD


Średni

Podcast
17,1 MB

For Broadcasters


Skrypt

English
66,1 KB

Napisy

Arabic
1,6 KB
Chinese
899 bajtów
Czech
1006 bajtów
English
1004 bajty
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 bajtów
Turkish
1,1 KB
Vietnamese
1,3 KB