Zooming in on The Pencil Nebula

Zooming in on The Pencil Nebula

This video starts with a wide field view of the spectacular southern part of the Milky Way. We close in gradually on a large bubble-shaped region of glowing gas in the constellation of Vela (The Sails). This is the Vela supernova remnant, gas clouds that were ejected from a dying star in a huge explosion about 11,000 years ago. The final detailed view comes from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. 

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Nick Risinger

Music: Disasterpeace

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: September 12, 2012

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