Infrared/visible crossfade of the Monoceros R2 star-forming region
This video fades back and forth between views of the stellar nursery Monoceros R2 in visible and infrared light. The visible-light view was created from digitised photographs through red and blue filters forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS) and the new infrared view comes from the VISTA telescope at Paranal. In the infrared, the thick, rich, dust clouds that cover much of the image become nearly transparent and a whole host of young stars and associated outflows become apparent.
Credit:ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
About the Video
Id: | eso1039b |
Release date: | 6 October 2010, 12:00 |
Related releases: | eso1039 |
Duration: | 51 s |
Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
Name: | Monoceros R2 |
Category: | Nebulae |