ESOcast 127 Light: Ageing Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble (4K UHD)
Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae. These observations will help astronomers to better understand how stars evolve during the later stages of their life-cycles.
This short podcast takes a look at this important new result and what it means.
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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Visual Design and Editing: Nico Bartmann.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Izumi Hansen and Richard Hook.
Music: Colin Rayment & Stan Dart.
Footage and photos: ESO, spaceengine.org, NASA, SDO, M.Kornmesser, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), F. Kerschbaum.
Directed by: Nico Bartmann.
Directed by: Nico Bartmann.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
About the Video
| Id: | eso1730a |
| Release date: | 20 September 2017, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1730 |
| Duration: | 01 m 29 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
