Zooming in on the red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris
This video sequence takes you on a voyage from a broad vista of the sky into a close-up look at one of the biggest stars in the Milky Way, VY Canis Majoris. The final image comes from the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
2015-11-25 18:00:00 - European Southern Observatory