Colorful Star Cluster NGC 2367 | ESO

Colorful Star Cluster NGC 2367 | ESO

This rich view of an array of colorful stars and gas was captured by the Wide Field Imager (WFI) camera, on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. It shows a young open cluster of stars known as NGC 2367, an infant stellar grouping that lies at the center of an immense and ancient structure on the margins of the Milky Way.

Distance: over 7,000 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/G. Beccari

Release Date: July 1, 2015

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