ESOcast 183 Light: Stunning Exoplanet Time-lapse (4K UHD)
Channel: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Date: 2018-11-13

ESO's planet-hunting instrument SPHERE on the VLT has caught sight of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b emerging from the bright halo of its parent star, 64 light-years away.

The video is available in 4K UHD.

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ESO

Directed by: Nico Bartmann.  
Editing: Nico Bartmann.  
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.  
Written by: Ivana Kurecic and Calum Turner.  
Music: tonelabs – Noizefield (http://www.tonelabs.com).  
Footage and photos: ESO, Lagrange, SPHERE consortium, UHD Team, Digitized Sky Survey 2, L. Calçada, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org).  
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.