Zooming in on Cometary Globule CG4 | ESO

Zooming in on Cometary Globule CG4 | ESO

This zoom video sequence goes from a wide view of the southern Milky Way deep into the constellation of Puppis close to the site of the Vela supernova remnant. The final view shows a new close-up view of the cometary globule CG4. It glows menacingly, like the gaping mouth of a gigantic celestial creature, in this this new image from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). What looks huge and bright in this image is actually a faint nebula and not easy to observe. The exact nature of CG4 remains a mystery.

Distance: 1,300 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/J.Perez/Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Risinger

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: February 9, 2015

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