Unique Details Of Double Star In Orion Nebula And Star T Leporis Captured By 'Virtual' Telescope

A team of French astronomers has captured one of the sharpest color images ever made. They observed the star T Leporis, which appears, on the sky, as small as a two-storey house on the moon. The image was taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), emulating a virtual telescope about 100 m across and reveals a spherical molecular shell around an aged star.

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