ESOcast 58: ALMA Discovers Comet Factory
The detection of this “dust trap” solves a long-standing mystery: how dust particles around stars sum up to form planets, comets, and other rocky bodies. ESOcast 58 goes deep into the dust trap to explore how this comet factory works.
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Credit:ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO).
Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser and Luis Calçada.
Editing: Herbert Zodet.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Javier Perez Barbuzano, Richard Hook and Herbert Zodet.
Narration: Dr. J.
Music: movetwo.
Footage and photos: ESO, Nienke van der Marel, Christoph Malin (christophmalin.com), Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org), Digitized Sky Survey 2, Stéphane Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard), Luis Calçada, José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org) and NASA/JPL-Caltech/Robert Hurt (SSC/Caltech).
Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
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About the Video
| Id: | eso1325a |
| Release date: | 6 June 2013, 20:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1325 |
| Related announcements: | ann13052 |
| Duration: | 06 m 06 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | Oph-IRS 48, Ophiuchus |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar Object Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Disk |
| Category: | ESOcast HD Videos (disabled) Stars |
