Zooming in on the Medusa This video zoom takes you from a wide view of the sky deep into the constellation of Gemini (The Twins). There we see a strange object — the Medusa Nebula. As the star at the heart of this nebula made its final transition into retirement, it shed its outer layers into space, forming this colourful cloud. The image foreshadows the final fate of the Sun, which will eventually also become an object of this kind. The final very detailed image was captured using ESO’s Very La

Zooming into the HH 1177 young star This video starts with a wide view of the Milky Way, zooming into the Large Magellanic Cloud 160 000 light-years away, all the way to the young star system HH 1177 within it. With the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers found a jet system coming from a young, massive star. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, a rotating disc was also discovered — a f

2.3K views · 177 reactions | Zooming into the L1688 star-forming region This video takes us on a journey to the L1688 region, where new stars are being born. We first see the Milky Way in visible light, and then we switch to an infrared view, which reveals young stars hidden by dust in this region. More information: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2307/ Credit: ESO | Hubble’s Universe | Facebook