A Tour of The Cosmic Serpent | ESO

A Tour of The Cosmic Serpent | ESO

ESOcast 185 Light: The VISIR camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) captured this stunning image of a newly-discovered massive binary star system. Nicknamed Apep after an ancient Egyptian deity, it could be the first gamma-ray burst progenitor to be found in our galaxy.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)  

Directed by: Nico Bartmann

Editing: Nico Bartmann

Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida 

Written by: Sara Rigby and Calum Turner   

Footage and photos: European Southern Observatory, Digitized Sky Survey 2, F. Kamphues, N. Risinger, Callingham et al., NAOJ, L. Calçada, NASA, SDO, M. Kornmesser

Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

Duration: 1 minute, 28 seconds

Release Date: November 19, 2018

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