Alma's False-Color Image of the Double Star Mira (IMAGE)

Chalmers University of Technology

Alma's False-Color Image of the Double Star Mira

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This is Alma's false-color image of the double star Mira, 420 light years from Earth. The two stars, separated by a distance similar to the distance between the Sun and Pluto, are imaged so sharply that astronomers can discern surface details. The ellipse in the lower left corner shows the size of the smallest details that Alma can distinguish.

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W. Vlemmings/Alma

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