The interior of ExTrA
Searching for nearby exo-Earths around cool stars, ExTra (Exoplanets in Transits and their Atmospheres) is based in ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile. ExTrA is a new generation of planet-hunting telescopes, this is one of three 60-centimetre telescopes that looks for slight dips in the spectroscopy coming from smaller stars.
Credit:ESO
About the Video
Id: | ExTrA_interior3 |
Release date: | 23 October 2019, 10:52 |
Duration: | 11 s |
Frame rate: | 25 fps |
About the Object
Name: | Exoplanets in Transits and their Atmospheres |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | La Silla |