ESOcast 225 Light: ESO Telescope Captures Disappearance of Massive Star

Astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable massive star in a dwarf galaxy with ESO’s Very Large Telescope. This video offers a summary of the research.

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.

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ESO

Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Editing: Herbert Zodet.
Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Caitlyn Buongiorno, Stephanie Rowlands and Bárbara Ferreira.
Music: tonelabs (www.tonelabs.com) – Orion Fog.
Footage and photos: ESO, L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), NASA, ESA/Hubble, J. Andrews (U. Arizona), ACe Consortium and J. Colosimo.
Scientific consultants: Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova.

About the Video

Id:eso2010a
Release date:30 June 2020, 12:00
Related releases:eso2010
Duration:01 m 29 s
Frame rate:25 fps

About the Object

Type:Local Universe : Star : Type : Variable
Category:ESOcast
Stars

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