Zooming in on the red supergiant star Antares

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This video starts from a wide field view of the Milky Way, including the prominent constellation of Scorpius (The Scopion). It zooms in towards Scorpius’s bright red heart — the red supergiant star Antares. The final view shows an image of the surface of Antares — the best ever of any star other than the Sun — taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer.

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These videos relax my mind and gives me a good night sleep. Zooming into space is really soothing

adarshyadav

I prefer these kinds of zooms over the class Zoom. A lot

tykingcrystal

whenever a video of this channels is in my recommended, it is almost always one i haven't seen

eggtastic

It's such a beautiful name
Antares

Captain-Nostromo

dude that is one of the most awesome videos I have ever seen

thebridgeconcept

The fact that I can see it’s glow so easily among the other stars in quite literally the entire visible galaxy is absolutely astounding.

internetstrangerstrangerofweb

This is so AMAZING!!! GREAT WORK VLT Telescope!!! Love you and when the ELT telescope is finished take a picture of Antares please💖

jesusvieira

I first discovered Antares while doing astro-photography with a new camera. I didn't know what it was until I got home and did research. Now I am really impressed.

lonnieclemens

Wow..l can see it every night in the scorpious constellation

husnawadihusnawadi

Just saw this today with my binoculars. Very impressive looking.

lessthanpinochet

i got several of my telescope eyepieces from antares :)

felixzeng

Questions!
1) How are images like this captured? It's my understanding that photos like this, where starlight is rather dim to the naked eye, require long exposure times. How does a telescope keep looking at the same spot for long enough to capture enough light without blurring, like we see in long exposure/time lapse photos?
2) I noticed when it is zoomed in quite a bit (say, 0:35) that you can see two different lens flares (or something that looks like it.) What causes this?
3) The image goes from very bright and fuzzy to very dark and detailed (0:40 to 0:47) How is this happening? Two separate photos?

Sorry if the questions seem too simple, just trying to learn :) TIA

MichaelJCaboose

I was amazed to learn that our best telescopes cannot actually see any stars. Just their luminosity

planetoftheatheists

You should provide info like distance of the object From earth

md.shahajalal

The cluster of stars up and to the right of Antares is globular cluster M4. The smaller globular cluster directly to the left of M4 is NGC6144. Another globular cluster, M80, is directly above, but it is too small to be differentiated from a star at this scale.

That whole yellowy gaseous cloudy stuff up to the left of Antares is the Rho Ophiuchi complex, famously referred to by David Malin as "cosmic vomit".

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