Slides of short presentation about the VISIR instrument at the VLT, Lorentz-Center workshop: The next Generation of Thermal-IR Astronomy, Leiden, Netherlands, Nov 2018
2018 Lorentz VISIR Dasmus by Daniel Asmus on Scribd
Friday, November 30, 2018
Coils of Apep -- Probably the most beautiful image VISIR ever took
During my time as ESO fellow, working at the Paranal Observatory, I was lucky enough to record this mid-infrared image with VISIR during one of those winter nights in 2016 as part of my service to the community:
This cosmic serpent-like swirl is actually a multiple system of Wolf-Rayet stars whereas the swirls are formed by colliding winds.
The full story can be read here: Callingham et al. (2018)
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