ESOcast 147 Light: First Light for Planet Hunter ExTrA at La Silla (4K UHD)
Channel: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Date: 2018-01-24

A new national facility at ESO’s La Silla Observatory has successfully made its first observations. The ExTrA telescopes will search for and study Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby red dwarf stars. ExTrA’s novel design allows for much improved sensitivity compared to previous searches. Astronomers now have a powerful new tool to help in the search for potentially habitable worlds.

This short ESOcast showcases this new facility.

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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Credit:
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Editing: Nico Bartmann.  
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.  
Written by: Nicole Shearer and Richard Hook.  
Music: Music written and performed by: John Stanford (johnstanfordmusic.com).  
Footage and photos: ESO, L. Calçada, spaceengine (spaceengine.org), M. Kornmesser, P. Horálek, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), I. Crossfield.  
Directed by: Nico Bartmann.  
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.