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Videos tagged with 'star'
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Following the motion of an exoplanet
— 10 Jun 2010 18:28 GMT | AstronomyThis video sequence shows an artist's impression of the disc and the planet around the young star Beta Pictoris (c) ESO/L.…
Dramatically backlit dust in giant galaxy
— 7 Apr 2009 15:03 GMT | AstronomyZooming in on NGC 7049, a mysterious looking galaxy with globular clusters dotted throughout its halo (c) ESA/Hubble (M.…
Tycho Brahe's 1572 supernova classified
— 3 Dec 2008 18:00 GMT | AstronomyThis animation illustrates how a light echo works and how it can be used for time travel. A supernova explosion acts like…
Fomalhaut b: The first directly observed exoplanet
— 13 Nov 2008 19:30 GMT | AstronomyThis artist's rendition shows a planet circling a star 16 times brighter than our sun. The planet is estimated to complete…
'Naked eye' gamma-ray burst was aimed almost directly at the Earth
— 10 Sep 2008 17:00 GMT | AstronomyThis animation shows how astronomers think GRB 080319B erupted. A narrow, ultrafast jet punches through the star at nearly…
Globular clusters tell tale of star formation
— 5 Aug 2008 14:16 GMT | AstronomyThe Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys takes a closer look at the Virgo cluster located 54 million light-years…
First organic molecule on extrasolar planet discovered with Hubble
— 19 Mar 2008 18:00 GMT | AstronomyThis is an animation showing the the Jupiter-sized extrasolar planet HD 189733b and its parent star (c) ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser…
A powerful jet from a black hole is blasting a nearby galaxy
— 17 Dec 2007 20:29 GMT | AstronomyThis animation of 3C321 begins with a close-up of the supermassive black hole in the centre of the main galaxy. Hot gas is…
Hazy red sunset on extrasolar planet
— 11 Dec 2007 16:47 GMT | AstronomyFly by past the planet HD 189733b (artist's impression) (c) ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser and L. L. Christensen)…
A fifth planet circling 55 Cancri discovered
— 7 Nov 2007 05:27 GMT | AstronomyThis artist's animation takes us on a journey to 55 Cancri, a star with a family of five known planets - the most planets…