Moontanman Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Unique Details Of Double Star In Orion Nebula And Star T Leporis Captured By 'Virtual' TelescopeScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2009) — A team of French astronomers has captured one of the sharpest colour images ever made. They observed the star T Leporis, which appears, on the sky, as small as a two-storey house on the Moon [1]. The image was taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), emulating a virtual telescope about 100 metres across and reveals a spherical molecular shell around an aged star. Unique Details Of Double Star In Orion Nebula And Star T Leporis Captured By 'Virtual' Telescope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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