The small smattering of bright blue stars in the upper left of this vast new 615 megapixel ESO image is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life and death of stars. Known as Messier 18 this star cluster contains stars that formed together from the same massive cloud of gas and dust. This image, which also features red clouds of glowing hydrogen and dark filaments of dust, was captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1628/
Kind regards,
The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
10 August 2016
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5 August 2016: The 20th issue of the Communicating Astronomy with the Public journal is out now!
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