Mysterious ripples moving through the disc of AU Microscopii
This short timelapse sequence shows images of the debris disc around the nearby star AU Microscopii in 2010, 2011 and 2014. The two earlier images were from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the final one from the new SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope.
Credit:ESO, ESA & NASA
About the Video
| Id: | heic1521c |
| Release date: | 7 October 2015, 19:00 |
| Related releases: | heic1521 |
| Duration: | 16 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | AU Microscopii |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Disk : Debris |
| Category: | HD Stars |
