Exoplanets,
Orion,
Mirrors and
Light -
Episode 3 of
Astronomy:
Secrets of the Universe Revealed
Segment 1: 32 New Exoplanets
Found [5:11]
On
19 October 2009, at an international exoplanet conference, the team who built the
High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as
HARPS, the spectrograph for
ESO's 3.6-metre telescope, reports on the incredible discovery of more than 30 new exoplanets.
Credit: ESO Acknowledgements:
Visual design and editing:
Martin Kornmesser and
Luis Calçada. Cinematography:
Peter Rixner. Editing:
Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support:
Lars Holm Nielsen and
Raquel Yumi
Shida. Written by:
Henri Boffin and
Adam Hadhazy.
Host:
Dr. J. Narration: Gaitee Hussain.
Music:
John Dyson [
http://www.johndysonmusic.com/] from the CD darklight and movetwo [http://www.movetwo.de/]. Footage and photos: ESO. Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Executive producer:
Lars Lindberg Christensen.
http://eso.org/public/videos/eso0939a/
Segment 2: Relocating a
Giant VLT Mirror [10:35]
Every night, all year round, the ESO
Very Large Telescope, or VLT, opens its four giant eyes to scrutinise the beautiful southern skies. But keeping the VLT´s eyes clear requires each mirror to be cleaned and recoated occasionally, a delicate and complex procedure.
Credit: ESO. Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser and Luis Calçada. Cinematography: Peter Rixner. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Lars Holm Nielsen and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Herbert Zodet, Henri Boffin and
Eric Hal Schwartz. Host: Dr. J. Narration: Gaitee Hussain. Music: movetwo [http://www.movetwo.de/]. Footage and photos: ESO,
José Francisco Salgado (http://www.josefrancisco.org/). Directed by: Herbert Zodet. Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
http://eso.org/public/videos/esocast15/
Segment 3:
VISTA: A Pioneering New
Survey Telescope Starts
Work
VISTA (the
Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a new telescope that has just started work at ESO's
Paranal Observatory in
Chile.
Spectacular pictures of the
Flame Nebula, the
Centre of the Milky Way and the Fornax
Galaxy Cluster show that it is working very well.
Credit: ESO. Acknowledgments: J.
Emerson/VISTA/
UK ATC. Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser. Cinematography: Peter Rixner. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Lars Holm Nielsen and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by:
Richard Hook and Adam Hadhazy. Host: Dr. J. Narration: Gaitee Hussain. Music: John Dyson from the CD darklight and movetwo. Footage and photos: ESO. Directed by: Herbert Zodet. Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
http://eso.org/public/videos/eso0949a/
Segment 4: Orion in a
New Light [3:25]
The Orion Nebula reveals many of its hidden secrets in a dramatic image taken by ESO's new VISTA survey telescope. VISTA — the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy — is the latest addition to ESO's Paranal Observatory.
The telescope's huge field of view can show the full splendour of the
Orion Nebula and VISTA's infrared vision also allows it to peer deeply into dusty regions that are normally hidden.
Credit: ESO. Acknowledgments: J. Emerson/VISTA. Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Lars Holm Nielsen and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by:
Eric Schwartz and Richard
Hook. Narration: Dr J. Music: John Dyson [http://www.johndysonmusic.com/] (from the
album darklight) and movetwo [http://www.movetwo.de/]. Footage and photos: ESO. Directed by: Herbert Zodet. Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
http://eso.org/public/videos/eso1006a/
Segment 5: A Sharper
View of the
Universe with the
VLT Interferometer [5:38]
Continuing to increase the size of telescope mirrors is not an easy task, so astronomers have come up with a new technology to see even finer details: interferometry. But what is it?
Credit: Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser and Luis Calçada. Cinematography: Peter Rixner. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Lars Holm Nielsen and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Herbert Zodet, Henri Boffin and Adam Hadhazy. Host: Dr. J. Narration: Gaitee Hussain. Music: John Dyson [http://www.johndysonmusic.com/] from the CD darklight [http://www.johndysonmusic.com/discography/darklight
.htm]. Footage and photos: ESO. Directed by: Herbert Zodet. Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
http://eso.org/public/videos/esocast13/
ESO images and videos are released under the
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/] and may on a non-exclusive basis be reproduced without fee provided they are clearly and visibly credited. ESO-supplied video is presented by Astronomy - Secrets of the Universe Revealed on YouTube in episodes of 5 segments each displaying the original ESOCast footage in complete, unaltered, original forms.
- published: 28 Apr 2014
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