Stars orbiting Sagittarius A

[cottonfoo]

Quite an amazing video:

http://www.eso.org/gallery/v/Videos/Stars/vid-02-0...

5000km/s, that's over 11 million miles per hour! Boggle.

[Eric Mc]

Impressive footage - when you think about it.

It was shown on last week's "Horizon" too.

[slartibartfast]

impressive, seen it somewhere before a few weeks back but forget where.
good job the blackhole is a long way away.

[jmorgan]

slartibartfast said:

impressive, seen it somewhere before a few weeks back but forget where.
good job the blackhole is a long way away.

From what I understand, good job its there.

[cottonfoo]

Eric Mc said:

Impressive footage - when you think about it.

It was shown on last week's "Horizon" too.

Damn, I missed that.