Zooming in on the interacting galaxy system NGC 5291
This video takes us from a broad view of the southern Milky Way deep into the large constellation of Centaurus. The sequence ends with a close-up view from ESO’s Very Large Telescope of an interacting galaxy called NGC 5291, about 200 million light-years from Earth.
Credit:ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org) Music: Johan B. Monell (www.johanmonell.com)
About the Video
| Id: | eso1547a |
| Release date: | 9 December 2015, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1547 |
| Duration: | 50 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
