ESOcast 141 Light: ESPRESSO — the Next Generation Planet Hunter

The Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) successfully made its first observations in November 2017. Installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, ESPRESSO will search for exoplanets with unprecedented precision by looking at the miniscule changes in the properties of light coming from their host stars.

For the first time ever, an instrument will be able to sum up the light from all four VLT telescopes and achieve the light collecting power of a 16-metre telescope.

This short video gives a quick overview of this remarkable instrument and 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.

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Editing: Nico Bartmann
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida
Written by: Rosa Jesse, Nicole Shearer and Richard Hook
Music: Music written and performed by: Colin Rayment & Stan Dart
Footage and photos: ESO, Liam Young, P. Horalek, L. Calçada, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org), ESPRESSO team, spaceengine.org
Directed by: Nico Bartmann
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

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Id:eso1739a
Release date:6 December 2017, 12:00
Related releases:eso1739
Duration:01 m 12 s
Frame rate:30 fps

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