A dark cloud of cosmic dust snakes across this spectacular wide field image, illuminated by the brilliant light of new stars. This dense cloud is a star-forming region called Lupus 3, where dazzlingly hot stars are born from collapsing masses of gas and dust. This image was created from images taken using the VLT Survey Telescope and the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope and is the most detailed image taken so far of this region.
The release, images and videos are available on:
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1804/
Kind regards,
The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
31 January 2018
|
30 January 2018: ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) now has a second instrument working with the powerful Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF). The infrared instrument HAWK-I (High Acuity Wide-field K-band Imager) [1] is ...
|
| Read more |
|
Interview with: Olivier Hainaut
Interview with: Andy Williams
26 January 2018: 65 million years ago, the most famous asteroid in history slammed into Earth and most likely exterminated the dinosaurs. Disconcertingly, we are no less likely to be to hit by ...
|
| Read more |
|
|
|
|
