Zooming in on the star cluster NGC 3766
This zoom video starts with a wide view of the Milky Way and ends with a close-up look at a spectacular group of young stars — the open star cluster NGC 3766 in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). Very careful observations of these stars by a group from the Geneva Observatory using the Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler Telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have shown that 36 of the stars are members of a new and unknown class of variable star.
Credit:ESO/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/Hiro. Music: John Dyson (from the album Moonwind)
About the Video
Id: | eso1326a |
Release date: | 12 June 2013, 12:00 |
Related releases: | eso1326 |
Duration: | 56 s |
Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
Category: | Star Clusters |