The disc around IRAS 13481-6124

Eso_eso1029b_1024

eso_eso1029b July 14th, 2010

Credit: ESO/S. Kraus

Astronomers have been able to obtain the first image of a dusty disc closely encircling a massive baby star, providing direct evidence that massive stars do form in the same way as their smaller brethren —and closing an enduring debate. In order to discover and understand the properties of this disc, the astronomers employed ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). By combining the light from three of the VLTI’s 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes with the AMBER instrument, this facility allows astronomers to see details equivalent to those a telescope with a mirror of 85 metres in diameter would see. The resulting resolution is about 2.4 milliarcseconds, which is equivalent to picking out the head of a screw on the International Space Station.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1029b/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
IRAS 13481-6124
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Young Stellar Object
Star > Circumstellar Material > Disk

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red VLT (AMBER) Infrared -
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ID
eso1029b
Subject Category
B.3.1.2   B.3.7.2  
Subject Name
IRAS 13481-6124
Credits
ESO/S. Kraus
Release Date
2010-07-14T19:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1029b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Very Large Telescope
Instrument
AMBER
Color Assignment
Red
Band
Infrared
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
800.0, 800.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID
eso
Resource ID
eso1029b
Metadata Date
2023-10-11T09:25:41.589218
Metadata Version
1.1
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