ESOcast 229 Light: Planet-forming Disc Torn Apart by its Three Central Stars A team of astronomers used ALMA and ESO telescopes to study a peculiar system, GW Orionis, and to identify the first direct evidence that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming disc, leaving it warped and with tilted rings. This video provides […]

SPT0418-47: lensed view to reconstructed view ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Gravitational lensing of the distant SPT0418-47 galaxy (schematic) ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast 228 Light: ALMA Sees Most Distant Milky Way Look-alike Astronomers using ALMA, in which the ESO is a partner, have revealed an extremely distant galaxy that looks surprisingly like our Milky Way. This video summarises their findings. ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast 227 Light: Stunning Space Butterfly Captured by ESO Telescope Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have imaged a ‘space butterfly’, a planetary nebula known as NGC 2899. This video offers stunning views of this object and the science behind it. ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Zooming in on the planetary nebula NGC 2899 ESO Video Casts Go to Source

View of the orbit of two exoplanets around TYC 8998-760-1 ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast 226 Light: First Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-like Star The SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope has captured the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. ESO Video Casts Go to Source

A ‘fly to’ TYC 8998-760-1 ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast 225 Light: ESO Telescope Captures Disappearance of Massive Star Astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable massive star in a dwarf galaxy with ESO’s Very Large Telescope. This video offers a summary of the research. ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Zooming in to the Kinman Dwarf galaxy ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Artist’s animation of the disappearing star ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast 224: First Interstellar Visitors to the Solar System In this ESOcast, we explore some of the many questions interstellar visitors 1I/’Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov have raised including: what are they made of? How did they form? Are they like the comets or asteroids in our Solar System? And finally, what can they reveal about other […]

Animation of star plagued by giant magnetic spot ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Spots on the Sun vs spots on extreme horizontal branch stars (animation) ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast Light 223: Hot Stars are Plagued by Giant Magnetic Spots Astronomers using ESO telescopes have discovered giant spots on the surface of extremely hot stars hidden in stellar clusters. This video offers a summary of the discovery. ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast 222: Ten Fascinating Paradoxes about the Universe This video lets you see some of the many things we do not understand in the Universe, and the strange and surreal paradoxes in what we think we understand… ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Zooming in to AB Aurigae ESO Video Casts Go to Source

ESOcast 221 Light: ESO Telescope Sees Signs of Planet Birth Observations with ESO’s SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope have revealed the telltale signs of a star system being born. ESO Video Casts Go to Source

Zooming in to the inner region of the AB Aurigae system ESO Video Casts Go to Source