Zooming in on The Skull Nebula | ESO

Zooming in on The Skull Nebula | ESO

This video sequence starts from a wide field of the region of the sky around NGC 246, the Skull Nebula, and closes in on the planetary nebula. This detailed view comes from European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Risinger

Music: Astral Electronic

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: October 30, 2020

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